Senior Backend Engineer (L5-L6)

As a Senior 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.

Your responsibilities

• 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
• Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and driving best practices to deliver high quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Able to deal with ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
• Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
• Lets others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
• A creative and innovative problem solver & previous experience working in an agile, startup environment
• Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users

What we offer

• Base salary + 8-12% yearly bonus + equity
• Contract of employment (Polish UoP) + AKUP 50% tax deductible costs with 40-50% creativity factor for the QE role
• 100% remote work (we don’t have offices and we don’t plan to have them) - no hybrid, no forcing people to get back to the offices
• Allianz Medical Package and Warta Life Insurance covered by Apollo
• 1200 USD educational budget
• 300 USD Work From Home Stipend
• 4 additional PTO days for Engineering (Rest Days)
• 100% remote work and flexible working hours

Benefits

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• integration events
• dental care
• extra leave

Development opportunities we offer

• development budget
• industry-specific e-learning platforms
• intracompany training
• technical knowledge exchange within the company

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!

Our requirements

• We’re language agnostic, you don’t need any previous Ruby experience for the backend positions. Any of those programming languages - Java, Python, Scala, Go, Elixir, C++ will be great as you'll learn Ruby during the onboarding
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization. Candidates should demonstrate fluency in integrating AI-driven solutions into their workflows and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies
• 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
• 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

Optional

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

OUR TECH STACK

Ruby/RoR, Python, React.js, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.