Software Engineering Manager, Apollo

• You thrive in navigating complexity and ambiguity, making informed decisions while prioritizing effectively to drive team success
• You have a proven track record of leading teams through change, adapting strategies, and refining focus to align with evolving business needs
• You are passionate about empowering others and cultivating a supportive environment where team members can thrive
• You bring relevant experience in developer tooling, infrastructure, or similar domains and are excited to contribute to building the infrastructure of the future
• You have a growth mindset, continuously seeking to learn and develop your leadership skills alongside your team
• You embody leadership principles such as creating clarity, unlocking performance, and delivering results in a collaborative environment
• You are familiar with all aspects of software development, from architecture to deployment and maintenance, and understand the importance of production-readiness
• You are a thoughtful leader with experience in hiring, coaching, and nurturing engineering talent, supporting their diverse personal and professional growth as the team expands

• As an Engineering Manager in the Runtime organization, you will lead a newly formed team dedicated to ensuring Apollo’s GraphOS platform is prepared to meet the evolving challenges of scale, performance, and reliability
• Lead a growing team of engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
• Establish clear goals and drive team-level execution by prioritizing and allocating resources to ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
• Refine and drive the team’s charter, ensuring alignment with the organization’s long-term vision and priorities
• Foster a high-performing engineering culture, encouraging innovation, autonomy, and professional growth
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to shape the technical direction, refine roadmaps, and evolve the team’s structure as it grows
• Partner with other engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful projects that strengthen the performance, reliability, and scalability of GraphOS
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to support hiring efforts and attract top engineering talent
• Participate in an on-call rotation as necessary

• 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

Total funding: $183.2m

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.