Apollo
Senior Backend Engineer
Remote Backend Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 18, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
India
Role overview
Senior Backend Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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DAILY ADVENTURES & 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
COMPETENCIES
- 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
- 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
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- 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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