Senior Backend Engineer

OUR ROLE & MISSION

As a Sr. Backend Software Engineer you will be a critical part of our growing company working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology architecture and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment receive and give hands-on mentorship and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You love both learning and teaching. In this role you will be interfacing with design front-end analytics as well as teams outside of Engineering. You enjoy working cross functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact. At Apollo you strive for quality and are obsessed with improving quality automation and squashing any bugs that sneak through. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.

OUR TECH STACK

• Frontend: React/Redux/Node.js

• Backend: Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform in infrastructure

DAILY ADVENTURES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints

• Deliver features/systems to customers to improve customer metrics

• Gather product requirements and write eng design docs to satisfy product needs

• Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development: product requirements architecture solution design development quality assurance and maintenance

• Deliver high quality implementations and promote engineering excellence within the team

• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge

• Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the product lead engineering manager and other stakeholders

• Be comfortable introducing new technologies and new ideas as required

• Work effectively as part of a large global team

• Lead spring planning for your ownership areas and drive execution

• Mentor junior engineers with feedback and technical guidance and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development at least 1-2 years in senior positions developing large-scale applications

• Experience developing distributed web applications

• Your code is comprehensible well-structured highly performant

• Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL both OK)

• Experience with using and designing RESTful services

• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms and object-oriented design

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