Staff Software Engineer, Apollo

Backend Distributed Systems

$167.4-211.8k

+Equity

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Kafka

Postgres

Kotlin

Terraform

Sentry

Rust

Apollo

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

GraphQL developer platform

Job no longer available

GraphQL developer platform

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Job no longer available

$167.4-211.8k

+Equity

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Kafka

Postgres

Kotlin

Terraform

Sentry

Rust

Apollo

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Company mission

To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Are you an experienced distributed systems engineer excited to work on the developer tools that help the biggest companies around the world scale in production with GraphQL?
If you care deeply about end-user experience and want to contribute to building tools that you, as a developer, can have a voice in guiding the direction of, read on!
You have deep systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms
You are adept at weighing technical and business trade-offs and can “see down the road and around corners”
You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a “rising tides lifts all boats” mentality
You level up those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride
You have the ability to work with many different team members across various orgs and positively influence others
You are data-oriented with a history of leveraging data to create a sticky, high-quality product for users. Bonus points if you know GraphQL!

What the job involves

Help design and build features that help the world’s largest enterprises go to production with GraphQL
Build end-to-end features for our customers, using various languages in our tech stack such as React with TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, Kafka, Rust, Druid and more
Work closely with product managers and designers to define product experiences and represent the engineering voice in product development
Design and build technical integrations between Apollo's cloud services and popular developer tools like Datadog, Pagerduty, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, and GitHub
Use new Apollo prototypes before anyone else and help us hone our “developers building for developers” experiences
Help onboard new team members and explain the tools we build to our global developer community
Help us design and build our own schema, while figuring out our own best practices for schema building and graph scaling
Participate in on-call rotation if required (team dependent)

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

Top investors

126% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

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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