Sr. Software Engineer - Property & Programs

About the role

We are hiring a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to join our newly formed Mixed Portfolio Foundation team. The team's mission is to own the foundational architecture and data models that are common to multiple property types, crafting a strong foundation for our Affordable Housing and Student Housing teams to build upon. In addition to driving new capabilities, the team will play a key role in strengthening and evolving existing solutions for our Community Association, Commercial, and NYC business segments.

This will be an engineering-driven team where engineers will have the agency to identify and advocate for the changes needed to support other teams. Engineers will play a key role in setting the technical direction and driving best practices to ensure scalability and flexibility. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for building leading-edge software and solving problems with long-term solutions to build a scalable, successful SaaS product used by thousands of businesses.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of our existing mixed portfolio segments, including affordable housing and student housing, enabling you and your team to truly own the foundations of these segments.
• Maintain our ongoing business segments, including Community Association, Commercial, NYC, and others.
• Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems—this may involve leveraging existing technology, refactoring, integrating with partners, or starting from scratch when it makes sense.
• Mentor and guide other software engineers.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance.
• Work closely with and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QA, product owners, and designers.
• Enthusiastically participate in a high-performing, empowered team with high levels of mutual trust and respect.
• Take ownership of your problem space, reflecting on and growing from failures and celebrating successes.
• Work in a truly agile fashion to turn a massive, unruly problem into thinly sliced deliverables and execute quickly while limiting work in progress.
• Research, share, and recommend new technologies and trends.
• Hold a high bar of engineering excellence and always look for ways to raise it.
• Adopt our engineering best practices, provide and receive in-depth code reviews, and participate in healthy debate as a team.
• Evangelize your own expertise and experience among your teammates and the rest of the organization.
• Prioritize quality with thoughtful test coverage, swiftly resolving escalations from stakeholders like onboarding or customer care teams.
• Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Extensive experience designing complex data models that fit business and compliance requirements.
• Proven experience driving architectural improvements to enhance scalability, flexibility, or performance—and know how to advocate for technical changes that benefit the broader platform.
• Strong familiarity with the technologies we use, like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, and SOA.
• Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong familiarity with Test-Driven Development.
• Creativity and proactivity—an ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap.
• You love to learn about and use new tech but understand the value of leveraging existing technology when it gets the job done.
• You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and advocate for refactoring and code cleanliness.
• You can identify and resolve code-smells through sensible refactoring.

Skills

• Comfortable working with remote team members.
• Ability to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goals.
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with peers across other platform development teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience working across all levels of the development stack.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, or SOA.
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development.

Pay

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $173,000. The actual base salary will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, and experience. Base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.

Benefits

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits, including additional compensation elements like bonuses or commissions based on role and employment type. Learn more about our benefits here.

About AppFolio

AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. We foster a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drives the growth of our business and ourselves.

We enable a culture of learning by investing in employees from the start, offering coaching, mentorship, and tools to develop skills. We create a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels effortless, freeing people to thrive. We innovate with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact, learning as much from each other as from our customers and communities.

We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal, and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration and come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.