Senior Software Engineer, Growth
Published on September 02, 2026
Founded in 2015, Apollo is a leading sales intelligence and engagement platform trusted by over 20,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to the largest global enterprises. Our platform unifies a database of 250m contacts and 60 million business accounts with advanced intelligence and engagement tools, to help over 500,000 sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to connect with the right person at the right time with the right message, at speed and scale. We're also ranked #1 in Satisfaction on G2 Crowd for Sales Intelligence & Sales Engagement and are used by 1M professionals worldwide.
In the last year, we’ve grown ARR 3x, quadrupled our active users, maintained profitability, and closed a $110M Series C led by Sequoia Capital in March of 2022 to fuel the next phase of our growth.
Daily Adventures and Responsibilities
- Develop and execute engineering strategies that enable rapid experimentation and data-driven decision-making
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Marketing, Data Science, and Engineering to optimize key growth metrics and contribute to core product initiatives
- Architect and build scalable systems that support growth initiatives, such as onboarding flows, personalization engines, and viral loops
- Implement A/B testing and data instrumentation to ensure accurate tracking and measurement of experiments
- Leverage automation and machine learning to optimize user engagement, reduce churn, and personalize user experiences
- Produce clean, well-structured, well-documented code and implement pixel-perfect designs that work across browsers, per spec
- Help maintain code quality, organization, automation, and continuous delivery
- Ensure technical excellence through best practices in performance optimization, security, and scalability
- 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 stand-ups, team meetings, and manager 1:1s
- Give and receive constructive feedback and praise
Competencies
- Proactively acts without being told what to do; identifies areas of improvement and drives best practices to deliver high-quality, performant, scalable solutions
- Takes ownership over everything shipped
- Communicates effectively, clearly, and concisely — technical and non-technical, written and verbal — and actively listens to ensure understanding
- Helps teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work; shares credit where due
- Actively seeks out and acts on feedback as a tool for growth
- Confident in owning their role and bringing creative ideas to users
- Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action; obsession with metrics (LTV, CAC, retention) and rapid iteration
Skills & Relevant Experience
- Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development (code generation, debugging, productivity optimization), with fluency integrating AI-driven solutions into your workflow and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies
- BS in Computer Science, or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of industry experience in frontend or full-stack development, building large-scale applications
- Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6)/TypeScript, React, Redux, HTML, CSS, and at least one backend language (Ruby/RoR, Python, or Node.js)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and REST APIs
- Experience with analytics tools (Amplitude, Mixpanel, Google Analytics) and A/B testing platforms (e.g., Optimizely, LaunchDarkly, Segment)
- Familiarity with growth frameworks (e.g., Pirate Metrics, viral loops)
- Strong UX and product sense, with the ability to negotiate the right MVP
- Strong attention to detail; interest in building UI with performance, accessibility, and scalability in mind
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with growth at a startup or scaling product
- Knowledge of SEO, CRM tools (Braze, HubSpot), or marketing automation