Senior Software Engineer, Apollo
Backend
$144.5-195.5k
+ Equity
API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
Job no longer available
API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$144.5-195.5k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help developers and engineering teams build better software faster with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration, accelerating application development and delivering, better more cohesive experiences, and now extending that same approach to power AI agents and agentic applications.
Role
Who you are
- You are passionate about building foundational systems, enjoy evolving core data models, and event-driven architectures
- You’ve worked on distributed systems at scale before and are comfortable implementing complicated and performant microservices from the ground up
- You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling and are interested in helping push the industry forward
- You are growth-oriented and enjoy the breadth of work that comes from contributing to systems that affect every product ship
- You’re excited to bring your own creativity/vision to the problems Apollo is solving for the developer community, and being data-driven
- The idea of sharing your work broadly, both internally and externally, is exciting to you
- You’re looking forward to working with a distributed team
What the job involves
- In this role, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining reliable internal services for usage-based billing infrastructure, graphql-based permissions, platform CLI tools, and much more
- You’ll harden and grow our critical business microservices in a way that appeals to internal and external developers
- You will be a leader in guiding the direction of the internal and external products that enable developers
- As an engineer on the team, you’ll work closely with our product teams and others to translate product ideas into well-crafted data models, clear service boundaries, and rich user experiences
- You’ll own the maintenance and reliability of the services you bring to life, and you’ll use your own product additions every day in the work you do
- Help design and build core backend microservices to power a variety of products. You will work on key foundational pieces like our large event-driven systems, user permissions system, graph variant permissions system, and more
- Work on highly complex problems, and bring other team members along with you
- Work in our exciting tech stack spanning GraphQL, TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, Kubernetes, Druid, and Kafka
- Work with engineering and product leadership to accomplish the team’s roadmap, based on the company priorities and what you know the team can accomplish
- Use new Apollo prototypes before anyone else and help us hone our “developers building for developers” experiences
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 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.4m
Company benefits
- Globally distributed company: No return-to-office for us. We believe in the strengths that come with being a globally distributed company. Our 220+ Apollonauts located in 10 countries and 13 time zones thrive on working from home, learning from each other, and avoiding long commutes and traffic jams (although that hike to the kitchen for snacks between meetings can be a real journey).
- Flexible Time Off (FTO): Whether it’s planning a vacation or taking some time to focus on your well-being, one thing matters to us: you have time to focus on you. Rest up, and make sure you share those travel pics when you get back. *For our UK and Canada teammates, we also offer "flexible time off in practice" which folds in your country-specific nuances so you may share the benefits of taking vacation that is restful, rejuvenating, and individualized for your needs.
- Full benefits package: We provide a variety of meaningful and competitive benefits based on whether you’re located in UK, Canada, or USA. When you go through the recruitment process, we’ll walk you through your country-specific package. No matter what life throws at you, rest assured that you and your family will be covered.
- Parental leave: Welcoming a new child is going to change your world, and we want to be here to support you when you need it. We offer leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, and a personal leave specialist to guide you through the process.
- Streamlined collaboration: Virtual “coffee chats”, tools that help us work as a distributed company, and a culture of documentation and global inclusivity ensure we stay connected and collaborate throughout the week.
- Company Kickoff: We believe in building meaningful connections with each and every Apollonaut. Once a year, we get the whole team together for our annual Company Kickoff where we learn, align, and most importantly, build relationships with each other. We can’t wait to see you at the next one!
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt DeBergalis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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