Senior Software Engineer — AI-Native, End-to-End Ownership

Apollo.io; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 358,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Wellbeing benefits

Travel coverage

Insurance (Life/AD&D/STD/LTD)

Medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Apollo is seeking engineers to design, build, and scale major systems end-to-end, taking on ambiguous, high-impact problems. You will balance performance, reliability, and cost while driving outcomes across product and design teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, quality, and leveraging AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery. You will work with a stack including React on the frontend and Ruby, Rails, Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch on the backend, plus Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and

Qualifications

• Proven track record of owning and shipping systems at scale.
• Expertise in system design, data modeling, and cost/reliability tradeoffs.
• Ability to lead ambiguous work to clear outcomes.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and modern tooling.
• High ownership and quality mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own significant systems end-to-end from design to production and operation.
• Break down hard, ambiguous problems and drive to shipped outcomes.
• Own reliability, performance, and cost of the systems you manage.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to solve cross-team issues.
• Raise the quality bar and establish patterns that improve team effectiveness.

Skills

System design

Data modeling

Reliability

Cost optimization

Ownership mindset

AI-assisted development

Tools

React

Ruby on Rails

Python

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Apollo is seeking engineers to design, build, and scale major systems end-to-end, taking on ambiguous, high-impact problems. You will balance performance, reliability, and cost while driving outcomes across product and design teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, quality, and leveraging AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery. You will work with a stack including React on the frontend and Ruby, Rails, Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch on the backend, plus Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and