Engineering Manager
Apollo.ioPosted 2/6/2025
Engineering Manager
Apollo.io
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Job Summary
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior engineers at Apollo, driving excellence, productivity, and growth within the engineering organization. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in software engineering, technical leadership, and people management. They should be able to define goals, drive culture, and improve development processes while working closely with stakeholders. With 8+ years of industry experience and a proven track record of technical leadership, this role offers opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and contributing to key decision-making processes. As a remote first company, documentation is critical to our success, and the candidate should be able to write well-defined documents and processes.
Job Description
**This is a Permanent EoR role and not a B2B Contract**
YOUR ROLE & MISSION
As an Engineering Manager, you will have the critical leadership role of enabling excellence, productivity, and growth within Apollo's engineering organization. You crave the opportunity for hands-on mentorship, and to accelerate not only your career, but for those of your team as well. Your responsibility would come in several forms, including but not limited to:
Help the team define, set, and adhere to goals and expectations
Drive a culture around excellence, learning, and fun
Critically observe and improve development and management processes within Apollo engineering
Work closely with key stakeholders such as the CTO, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver high quality software at a rapid pace for an ever-increasing user base
Change, and be a part of key decision-making processes within the engineering organization
Daily Adventures and Responsibilities
Participation in key technical decision-making discussions such as sprint planning, software design, and occasionally code reviews
Help build and scale a world-class engineering team by sourcing and hiring candidates
Hold systematic weekly 1:1 touch points with engineers to deliver and receive quality feedback
Work with engineers to develop and execute on personalized goals
Conduct objective and helpful quarterly performance reviews for engineers
Competencies
You love scaling up through well-written documents and well-defined processes. As a remote first company, documentation is critical to our hyper-growth and success
You are compassionate, put people first as a mentor, and are tactful with both accepting and delivering criticism to others
You have the leadership skills to think and execute strategically but are not afraid to get your hands dirty when needed
Your technical understanding of engineering systems, especially related to data, is second to none
You can relate to and admire Apollo’s values of Ownership, Integrity, Curiosity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Fun
Skills and Relevant Experiences
8+ years of hands-on software engineering industry experience. You will be leading a team of multiple senior and staff level engineers so you need to be technically very strong
3-5 years' experience in people management, preferably leading senior engineers and managers
Proven track record of technical leadership. Strong fundamentals in software architecture at scale, effective engineering processes, and cross-team function
Experience with Ruby and Python
Understanding of data privacy and security fundamentals
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
Great to have
Familiarity with React, MongoDB, SQL, data warehousing, and ElasticSearch
Experience with data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Looker, etc.)
Experience within the activation space
Our Tech Stack
Our tech stack is React/Redux/NextJS on the front end, Ruby/Python/MongoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis on the backend, and Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform for infrastructure.
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