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Federated supergraphs
Subgraphs owned by separate teams and composed by Apollo Router, with entity boundaries that match your domains.
Senior / Staff
Hire senior GraphQL and Apollo Federation architects
GraphQL architects who unify services behind one typed supergraph — with batching to stop N+1 queries, cost limits to stop abuse, and schema checks to stop breaking changes.
Role profile
What we look for in a Senior GraphQL & Apollo Architect
Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start. These are the skills that interview should test.
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DataLoader and N+1 prevention
Per-request batching and caching, so nested fields don't turn into hundreds of database queries.
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Query cost and security
Depth and complexity limits, persisted queries for public clients, and field-level authorization.
Typical work
What a Senior GraphQL & Apollo Architect typically works on
Examples of the scope this role is hired for. Your statement of work sets the actual deliverables and how they are accepted.
- 01An Apollo Federation supergraph over existing REST and gRPC services
- 02Smaller mobile payloads through targeted field selection
- 03Schema linting and breaking-change checks in CI
- 04Normalized client caching with Apollo Client and Next.js
Stack and tools
What this role works with day to day. Tell us your stack and we’ll say plainly which parts we can staff.
- GraphQL
- Apollo Federation v2
- Apollo Router
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Go
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Related service
Custom software developmentA system built around your workflow, shipped in weekly increments — not a rewrite that lands a year late.
How hiring works
Four steps, agreed in writing before anyone starts
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Tell us the role
The stack, the seniority you need, the hours you want covered, and any certifications the work requires. We reply within one business day.
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We propose engineers
A written proposal sets out who we'd put forward, their seniority and experience, the scope, and the terms. If we can't staff the role well, we say so.
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You interview every engineer
Nobody starts on your codebase until you've interviewed them and agreed. Use the skills on the role page as your interview checklist.
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Working arrangements go in the SOW
Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.
QuantmHill provides development teams from India for Indian startups and SMEs. Role profiles describe project capabilities; availability is confirmed for your engagement. Our team works on India Standard Time. Project working hours, availability and handoff responsibilities are agreed before kickoff.
Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign. There are no recruiting fees.
FAQ
Questions about hiring a Senior GraphQL & Apollo Architect
Answered the way we would on a call. If yours isn’t here, send it — we reply within one business day.
Each team owns and deploys its own subgraph. Apollo Router composes them into one API, and schema checks in CI catch changes that would break another team's clients.
Depth and complexity limits enforced at the router, persisted queries so public clients can only run approved operations, and rate limits keyed by client.
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Tell us the stack, the seniority you need and the hours you want covered. We reply within one business day, and you interview every engineer before they start.