Senior Client Engineer, Apollo
$157.3-185k
+ Equity
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GraphQL developer platform
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GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$157.3-185k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.
Role
Who you are
- The most powerful skills you can bring to bear are curiosity, communication, and creativity
- On the technical side, we’re in search of someone who has taken the time to learn the ins and outs of React (or other component libraries/frameworks) and TypeScript
- You should have a solid understanding of how developers build frontend / full-stack applications, and a passion for educating and engaging with software people through writing and presenting
- You have extensive experience building production-grade React (or something similar like Vue or Angular) applications and deep expertise in TypeScript
- You have a basic understanding of GraphQL and experience integrating it into frontend applications
- You care deeply about developer experience and have worked on internal/open-source libraries, frameworks, or tooling that improve UI development
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and enjoy breaking down complex technical concepts for different audiences
- You have experience creating technical content, such as documentation, blog posts, tutorials, or conference talks (internal or public)
- You have a track record of engaging on open-source projects (opening issues, creating reproductions, and/or maintaining projects yourself)
- You have a history of contributing to a developer community, whether it’s a meetup group, a professional organization, conference attendance, or an online chat/community/forum
- You have experience with or are excited to learn how to start engaging with technical specification writing/reading
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Apollo Client Development team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of GraphQL and Apollo’s GraphOS product
- Apollo Client is downloaded over three million times per week, your work will be seen and used by countless teams worldwide
- You’ll work closely with our word-class product and engineering teams, collaborate across the GraphQL, TypeScript, and React communities, and get into the trenches with our community of users and customers
- Feature development and stewardship of Apollo Client
- Maintain and innovate within our browser and IDE extensions
- Nurture and cultivate our large and growing community of users (GitHub, forums, events)
- Create clear, well-structured documentation and educational content to help developers get the most out of Apollo’s tools
- Represent Apollo’s engineering brand in virtual events and the occasional conference
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ensure Apollo’s client developer toolkit evolves with the needs of our customers and the broader GraphQL ecosystem
- Champion the needs of UI developers within the GraphQL Working Group
Our take
Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.
Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.
In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
126% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Work from home opportunities
- Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
- Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Geoff Schmidt
(CEO)Co-founder & CEO of Meteor Development group and former software engineer at Asana.
Matt DeBergalis
(CTO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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