Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

What you'll do

• 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, spanning our tech stack from React through TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, and more.
• Design table migrations to accommodate new features.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and your engineering manager to define product experiences and represent the engineering voice in product development.
• 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.

About you

• You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling and are interested in helping push the industry forward.
• You are comfortable working across the stack and enjoy the breadth of work that comes from contributing to frontend code to thinking about systems design.
• You enjoy working cross-functionally with other teams whether it is with other engineering teams or sales, marketing, and customer success.
• You’re excited to bring your own creativity and vision to the problems Apollo is solving for the developer community.
• The idea of sharing your work broadly, both internally and externally, is exciting to you.
• You’re looking forward to working with a distributed team.
• You have customer empathy and it inspires you to create world-class GraphQL developer tools.
• You're familiar with the modern services architecture, including technologies like Kubernetes, the JVM, and Kafka.
• You take pride in a highly scalable and robust infrastructure, and are excited to tackle difficult systems-level challenges.
• You have experience writing server code for demanding scalability or availability requirements.
• You're excited at the opportunity to influence the direction of GraphQL by providing a unique backend-oriented perspective.
• You recognize the importance of site availability, system monitoring, and actively participating in the on-call rotation.