What the role involves
The Company
Apollo.io's mission is to help every business to fulfill their full market potential by connecting companies with amazing solutions with those who need them most. We've built a database of 250 million business contacts and 10 million companies, and our software helps sales and marketing identify and convert their most likely potential customers. We've raised over $10 million from Silicon Valley investors such as Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, SV Angel, and Social Capital, and are profitable and continuously growing. We're headquartered in San Francisco, CA with a brilliant worldwide remote team.
Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy.
Your Role & Mission
As a Senior Full-Stack 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 are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build so much more.
Examples of work that Software Engineers do at Apollo
Scrape news from more than 1000+ sources every day. Apply NLP to categorize the news, and alert users based on their preference.
Design, build, and scale machine learning pipelines that analyze and score user’s data based on billions of signals that we scrape from tens of millions of websites.
Design, build, and scale complex and highly customizable analytics engines to help clients track success metrics while using our platform.
Build a phone call system that allows users to make phone calls on the platform and track their phone call history. Apply NLP on the recording to help our customer analyze their phone calls and improve performance.
Competencies/Key Traits
Strong object oriented design and programming skills
Ability to take ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code "released" until you’re confident it’s correct
Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users, someone who can grow as a technical leader
Daily Adventures/Responsibilities
Collaborate with CTO and CEO to design, iterate upon, as well as implement core product initiatives.
Front-end development in React/Redux/NodeJS/ES6, SCSS
Backend development of RESTful services in Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch
Scaling existing backend systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements
Create internal tools to help our sales and support teams guide our customers to success
Skills and Relevant Experiences
Full-stack engineering experience in any of the following languages: Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Java, JavaScript, Python/Django.
Experience with database modeling (SQL and/or NoSQL)
Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in engineering.
Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
Ability to take complex product goals and efficiently deliver working software in logically consumable pieces
Creative and innovative problem solver with experience working in a startup environment
Great to Have
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, React, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch
Experience with Web scraping (Mechanize, Phantomjs, Selenium, XPath,... )
Experience with Machine Learning
What You'll Love about Apollo
This is a remote position available from anywhere in the world. Please apply ONLY if you meet the minimum requirements.
As we are scaling our company, we are committed to providing the best possible environment for our engineering team. The less time our engineers spend dealing with cumbersome processes, inefficient systems, and commuting, the more time they have to solve problems and make an impact. We're a technology-first team dedicated to building the greatest engagement software
What they ask for
About Apollo.io
Founded in 2015, Apollo.io is a lead intelligence and sales engagement platform trusted by nearly 9,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Our community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy. Our advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help over 500,000 sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects' data to increase quality conversations and opportunities. We have notable investors: Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners. We recently completed a Series B financing to fuel our next growth phase. We have reached and maintained profitability for the last 18 months. Our growth and customer feedback set us apart from competitors. Apollo had over one million sign-ups for its platform in the past year, and the number of weekly active users increased by over 400%. We are a top-ranking G2 Crowd vendor in the Sales Intelligence, Lead Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Sales Engagement categories. Our highest scores are in the B2B data space for accuracy and ROI based on customer reviews.
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