Senior Backend Engineer
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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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Senior Backend Engineer
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
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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