Senior Engineering Manager, Apollo
$204-258k
+ Equity
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GraphQL developer platform
Open for applications
GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$204-258k
+ 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
- You thrive in leading through complexity and ambiguity, making informed decisions and prioritizing effectively
- You have a track record of successfully leading teams through change by refining their focus, shaping team charters, and aligning priorities to meet evolving business needs
- You care deeply about people and find motivation in helping others succeed
- You bring experience from developer tooling, infrastructure, or similar spaces, and are excited to be part of building the infrastructure of the future
- You have a growth mindset, continually seeking to learn and improve your leadership
- You embody the leadership principles of creating clarity, unlocking performance, and delivering results
- You are familiar with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance
- You are a thoughtful leader with experience in hiring, coaching and retaining engineering talent with diverse needs for personal and professional growth
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead a team playing a critical role in advancing the federation capabilities of Apollo's graph technologies, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and high performance for our users
- Manage a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and aligning them with the organization’s long-term vision
- Drive team-level execution by prioritizing and allocating resources to ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
- Lead teams through change by providing clear direction, fostering alignment, and refining team charters as needed
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture, encouraging innovation and supporting team growth
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to set the technical direction, refine roadmaps, shape the organization, and ensure successful delivery of high-impact projects
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful strategic projects, shaping the future of GraphOS infrastructure
- Foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment based on trust, autonomy, and psychological safety
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to define hiring strategies, and actively attract and retain top engineering talent
- Participate in an on-call rotation as necessary
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
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 values
- We strive for excellence through candid and constructive feedback.
- We are constantly teaching and learning from each other, allowing us to grow both professionally and personally.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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