Staff Software Engineer, Apollo
Growth
$167.4-211.8k
+ Equity
GraphQL developer platform
Open for applications
GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$167.4-211.8k
+ 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 have extensive experience as a full-stack engineer with a deep understanding of backend systems, infrastructure, and distributed architectures
- You’ve started and owned projects from scratch, whether as a technical lead, a founder, or through significant side projects that drive growth, user engagement, or product innovation
- You thrive in ambiguous environments, identifying and driving key opportunities for technical improvements that align with business goals
- You’re comfortable working with a variety of programming languages and technologies, including GraphQL, Kotlin, Rust, or Java, and have a deep understanding of system design and optimization
- You’re highly collaborative and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams to bring new features to life
- Bonus points if you’ve worked with any part of Apollo in production, other developer-facing tools, or have experience building SaaS products, especially in fast-paced, high-growth environments
What the job involves
- The Growth Team plays a key role in making sure customers experience a smooth onboarding process, easily subscribe to paid plans, and fully leverage Apollo’s product suite, including Apollo Router, Rover CLI, and various API strategies
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Growth team, you will lead the development and delivery of features that unlock new opportunities for user engagement and long-term value
- You’ll be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, shaping individual features, driving architectural decisions, influencing the product roadmap, and providing technical mentorship to other engineers
- Your work will have a significant impact on the direction of Apollo’s Growth efforts and the experience of developers globally, helping to shape the future of our GraphOS platform
- Lead the design and implementation of complex technical solutions that drive key business outcomes, with a focus on improving user engagement, activation, and retention
- Work across Apollo’s entire product portfolio, identifying opportunities to introduce technical improvements and new features that enhance user satisfaction and deliver long-term value
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams to align technical initiatives with the company’s broader growth objectives, and drive high-impact projects to completion
- Advocate for experimentation and innovation, encouraging a culture of iteration and continuous improvement while maintaining high standards for delivery
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence within the team by conducting design reviews, ensuring code quality, and facilitating knowledge sharing
- Lead end-to-end development of new features, from ideation through production, leveraging a modern tech stack including Kotlin, Rust, React, TypeScript, GraphQL and Postgres, and ensuring successful deployment in a production environment
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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