Senior Backend Engineer building scalable backend services, data pipelines, and integrations for Apollo.io’s AI - driven go - to - market platform. Owning distributed architecture and high - throughput connections across a global engineering team.
About the role
- Senior Backend Engineer scaling Plooto’s cloud-native payment and cash-flow platform. Designing distributed systems and backend services for 14,000+ North American businesses.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable backend services using .NET and Azure
- Architect and evolve event-driven, distributed systems processing high volumes of financial transactions
- Build API-first services with strong contracts, reliability, and observability
- Lead complex technical initiatives from design through production rollout
- Make architecture decisions balancing speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
- Partner with Product and Design to translate ambiguous problems into technical solutions
- Improve performance, reliability, and system resilience as the platform scales
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
- Share engineering knowledge in regular Lunch & Learn sessions
- Contribute to experimentation, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Work cross-functionally to turn strategic needs into actionable engineering output
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, preferably in high-growth or product-led environments
- Strong expertise in C# or another strongly typed language
- Modern backend design principles
- Production-grade, testable, maintainable code
- Deep experience designing and building RESTful APIs in production
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes, serverless, and managed services, ideally in Azure
- Experience building or operating distributed, high-throughput systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems such as Kafka
- Experience implementing automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing
- Strong understanding of data storage patterns across RDBMS and NoSQL systems
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in fast-moving environments
- Previous successful experience in a cross-functional team environment
- Ability to effectively use AI tools to increase velocity, efficiency, and quality of deliverables
- Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated domains is a bonus
- Prior startup experience scaling systems and teams is a bonus
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Diverse and inclusive workforce commitment
- Accommodations throughout the recruitment and employment process
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