Software Engineering Manager, Apollo
$191.3-238k
Salary based in the US and may differ in further locations. + Equity
GraphQL developer platform
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GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$191.3-238k
Salary based in the US and may differ in further locations. + Equity
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 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
What the job involves
- 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
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 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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