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Apollo.io

Location:
India

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

As a Senior Backend 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.

Job Responsibility:

Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
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
Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
Provide feedback to co-workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

Requirements:

Minimum 5+ years of industry experience in backend development, at least 3-4 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications
Experience developing distributed web applications
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
Communication Skills
Problem Solving
Proactivity
Team Player
Listening Skills
Creativity and Innovation
Organization and Planning
Dealing with Ambiguity
Ownership of projects from start to finish
Distributed Web Development

Nice to have:

BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
GCP
Kubernetes
Docker
Mongo
Redis
Ruby on Rails
Microservices
Machine Learning

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Job Posted:
December 06, 2025

Work Type:

Remote work

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