Sr. Quality Engineering Manager

Apollo.io  is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises.  Apollo.io  provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process,  Apollo.io  turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.  Apollo.io  is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us. Your Role: As a Software Engineering Manager, you will have the critical leadership role of enabling excellence, productivity, and growth within Apollo's engineering organization. You crave the opportunity for hands-on mentorship, and to accelerate not only your career, but for those of your team as well. Your responsibility would come in several forms, including but not limited to: Help the team define, set, and adhere to goals and expectations Drive a culture around excellence, learning, and fun Critically observe and improve development and management processes within Apollo engineering Work closely with key stakeholders such as the CTO, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver high quality software at a rapid pace for an ever-increasing user base Change, and be a part of key decision-making processes within the engineering organization   Responsibilities: Participation in key technical decision-making discussions such as sprint planning, software design, and occasionally code reviews Help build and scale a world-class engineering team by sourcing and hiring candidates Hold systematic weekly 1:1 touch points with engineers to deliver and receive quality feedback Work with engineers to develop and execute on personalized goals Conduct objective and helpful quarterly performance reviews for engineers Competencies:   - Problem-solving: You are self-motivated and passionate about pursuing excellence, and enjoy adapting to and tackling problems that block you from reaching your goals - Execution: You are able to effectively plan, organize, and execute on initiatives in a timely and efficient manner. - Expectations: You have high expectations for the team's happiness, unity, growth, and level of execution and delivery. - Empathy: As a mentor and as a teammate, you are an intent listener that is compassionate and puts people first, and you are tactful with both accepting and delivering criticism to others - Driving alignment : You have the ability to set goals, align, and drive improvements within the team Qualifications: BS or MS degree from a university in a technical discipline (e.g. CS, Math, Engineering) 5+ years of hands-on software engineering industry experience 2+ years' experience of technical leadership over a small team; should have fundamentals in software architecture at scale, effective engineering processes, and cross-team function. Familiarity at least BE / FE or FS engineering (databases, DevOps) Our Tech Stack: Our tech stack includes but is not limited to React/Redux/NextJS on the front end, Ruby/Python/MongoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis on the backend, and Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform for infrastructure. What You’ll Love About Apollo Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!