Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Apollo’s mission is to make application development easier, faster, and more powerful by helping teams unlock the full potential of GraphQL. As part of our Graph Developer Experience (GraphDX) organization, this role focuses on delivering the tools, workflows, and technologies that empower developers to build and scale exceptional GraphQL experiences.

We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on evolving the Apollo platform through world-class developer tooling, new platform capabilities, and emerging areas of innovation. This is a high-impact leadership role with broad scope across Apollo’s core products, with the opportunity to shape the future of how developers work with graphs.

What You'll Do

• Manage and coach a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and aligning their work to the organization’s long-term vision.
• Drive execution by scoping, prioritizing, and allocating resources to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions to both internal and external users.
• Lead teams through ambiguity and change by providing clear direction, fostering alignment, and evolving team charters to meet business needs.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture grounded in trust, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define roadmaps, shape technical direction, and deliver robust, reliable platform capabilities.
• Champion excellence in usability, quality, and performance across the systems and tools your team builds.
• Foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment based on trust, autonomy, and psychological safety.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to define hiring strategies, and actively attract and retain top engineering talent.
• Contribute to the team’s operational health, with lightweight on-call responsibilities as needed.

Who You Are

• You thrive in leading through complexity and ambiguity, making informed decisions and prioritizing effectively.
• You have a track record of successfully leading teams through change by refining their focus, shaping team charters, and aligning priorities to meet evolving business needs.
• You care deeply about people and find motivation in helping others succeed.
• You have experience working in platform, developer experience, or developer tooling domains, and you enjoy building systems and products that empower developers.
• You have strong product instincts and a deep appreciation for the developer experience.
• You have a strong grasp of system and product design principles, allowing you to guide technical discussions and support teams in making thoughtful trade-offs for usability, performance, and scale.
• You have a growth mindset, continually seeking to learn and improve your leadership.
• You embody the leadership principles of creating clarity, unlocking performance, and delivering results.
• You are a thoughtful leader with experience in hiring, coaching and retaining engineering talent with diverse needs for personal and professional growth.

Whether you binge-watch a series on Netflix, plan faraway vacations from your phone, or read international news online, you’ve likely used Apollo’s technology this week. Apollo supports some of the largest GraphQL platforms in the world. 

We’re not looking to rest on our laurels though — we’re aiming to change how software is built. Apollo wants to empower every software team to build an amazing user experience across any number of clients, without dealing with a barrage of API endpoints. 

Equal to all of that, Apollo is intent on becoming the company where you can see your career grow through challenging work, collaborating with incredible teammates, and accomplishing the unattainable.

At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process.

In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.

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

Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here.

E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.