Senior Full-stack Engineer (Remote, India)

About Apollo Apollo.io  combines a buyer database of over 250M contacts  and  powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy to use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies including Autodesk, Rippling, Deel, Jasper.ai, Divvy, and Heap, Apollo has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, Apollo helps go-to-market teams sell anything. In the last year, we’ve grown ARR 3x, quadrupled our active users, and closed a $110M Series C led by Sequoia Capital in March of 2022. This year, we continue to grow faster each month with record months of sales and added ARR. We hope you apply. Working at Apollo We are a remote-first inclusive organization focused on operational excellence.  Our way of working ensures clear expectations and an environment to do your best work with ample reward. Your Role & Mission As a Sr. Full-stack Engineer at Apollo, you will work with Apollo’s 200M+ Leads data and build features on top of it. You will be responsible for improving the quality of our data and building customer-facing products by coming up with innovative, yet simple, solutions and implementing them end-to-end. This involves building highly scalable web services, an excellent understanding of software design and databases, and a solid grasp of frontend engineering. You will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement and drive best practices in technology, architecture, and process. In this role, you will interface with a product, design, software engineers, and members on teams outside of Engineering. At Apollo, we are obsessed with improving quality, automation, and squashing any bugs that sneak through, and we expect the same from you. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and generate innovative ideas. Our tech stack is React/Redux/NodeJS on the front-end, Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Python/MongoDB/Elasticsearch on the backend, and Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform for infrastructure. We use Google Cloud Platform as our cloud provider. Daily Adventures and Responsibilities Design, implement, test, deploy and iterate on end to end features in our products covering both frontend and backend. Implement "pixel perfect" design as delivered by our designers that works across different browsers, according to specifications provided. Produce "clean" and well-structured code, with detailed specifications and documentation. Help maintain code quality, organization, automation and continuous delivery. Effectively communicate development progress or blockers to the product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders. Work effectively as part of a large global team. Attend and engage in scrum ceremonies, oncall, and other team processes. Write unit/integration tests and contribute to engineering wikis. Competencies Customer driven: Attentive to our customers’ needs and strive to deliver a seamless and delightful customer experience. High Impact: Understand what the most important customer metrics are and find the right direction to impact them by working with Product Managers and through multiple agile iterations Ownership: Have ownership of projects from start to finish, make sure to have high quality implementation, and have urgency to move fast and find the most efficient ways to iterate Team Mentorship & Sharing: Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team Agility: Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver. Can lead fast iterations Speak and Act Courageously:aren’t afraid to fail, aren’t afraid to challenge status quo, speak up for contrarian view Focus and Move with Urgency: Able to prioritize for impact and move fast to deliver experiment, features to achieve customer value Intelligence: Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new codebase and frameworks. Skills & Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of industry experience in backend development and at least 3+ years in frontend development Solid understanding of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES6), React, Redux, HTML, and CSS Strong system design fundamentals and experience building scalable systems Good understanding of software development lifecycle Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Proven software engineering skills in production environment, including test-driven development Experience with Cypress in writing meaningful tests Your code is comprehensible, well-structured, and highly performant Preferred: Experience in Python Experience with Sidekiq Experience with Spark or other distributed processing frameworks Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, Terraform, Ansible Understanding of Design Systems and experience using them for frontend development 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!