Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer

Join Apollo GraphQL as a Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer

Are you an experienced full-stack developer excited to work on the tools that help some of the world’s largest companies collaborate on and govern their GraphQL APIs? 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, this could be the role for you!

Role Overview

As a Full Stack Product Engineer, you’ll be working on core features that enable organizations to manage complex, cross-team GraphQL schema changes, ensure endpoint security, and define custom validation rules for their workflows. You’ll build and optimize tools like Schema Proposals for cross-team collaboration, and Persisted Queries for API protection. This work will have a direct impact on how companies govern and scale their APIs, keeping them safe and adaptable to changing needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Build collaboration and governance tools to help enterprise users manage schema changes and API operations with confidence.
• Implement end-to-end features for our customers, using various languages in our tech stack such as React with TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, and more.
• Work on core features like Schema Proposals, Persisted Queries, and Custom Checks, ensuring that organizations can safely and efficiently evolve their GraphQL schemas.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define product experiences, and take high-level designs or user stories and bring them to life without requiring detailed technical specs or UX mockups.
• Help design and manage schema changes, crafting best practices for schema building and scaling.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support operational excellence and ensure the reliability of the platform.
• Share your work with the broader developer community, contributing to the growing ecosystem of GraphQL tools.

Who You Are

• You’ve worked on full-stack applications before and are comfortable working across the stack, especially in React and relational databases.
• You’re passionate about building tools that meaningfully increase the productivity of others, and workflows that allow businesses to effectively collaborate on and grow their graph.
• You’re skilled at independently translating broad concepts and user stories into practical, detailed functional solutions.
• You thrive in distributed teams and love learning new technologies, keeping up with the latest trends in developer tooling and API design.
• Bonus points if you’ve worked with Kotlin, Postgres, or similar technologies, and if you have experience with developer-facing tools.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $144,000 - $170,000 per year
• Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid maternity and paternity leave, disability insurance

Location

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.