OUR ROLE & MISSION
As a Senior Fullstack 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
- Frontend: React/Redux/Node.js
- Backend: Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform in infrastructure
DAILY ADVENTURES & 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, on call, and other team-processes
- Write unit/integration tests and contribute to engineering wikis
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of industry experience in backend development and at least 3+ years in frontend development
- Solid understanding of JavaScript (ES6), React, Redux, HTML, and CSS
- Strong knowledge of backend technologies, databases (e.g., MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
- 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
- Your code is comprehensible, well-structured, and highly performant
Nice to have:
- Experience in Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails,
- Experience with Sidekiq
- Experience with Cypress in writing meaningful tests
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, MongoDB, Terraform, Ansible
- Understanding of Design Systems and experience using them for frontend development
