Description

Hi, We’re AppFolio.

 

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company — we’re a cloud-based powerhouse that creates products to make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

 

Who we are looking for:

 

We are hiring a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to join an exceptional team and become a technical domain expert in our Investment Manager space. Our Investment Management product is the leading software platform in the fast-growing space of real estate investment management. We seek a strong software engineer to help build and evolve the real estate investment management user experience. This industry is ripe for innovation and AppFolio Investment Manager is leading the way. The ideal candidate will thrive in a highly collaborative environment, applying Agile and Lean UX techniques on cross-functional product development teams to build an innovative product for our customers.

 

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for building leading-edge software and is driven to help build a successful SaaS product used by thousands of happy businesses. We foster an environment that empowers small teams to set the technical direction of our solutions collaboratively.

 

Responsibilities:Build a deep understanding of our existing Investment Management segment, enabling you and your team to truly own the domain.Become a master of your software engineering craft, and work with other software engineers who are smart enough to teach you, and humble enough to learn from you.Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems for our customers.Help mentor and guide other software engineers.   Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance.Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver 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. Along with the team, you will take ownership of your problem space, reflecting on and growing from our failures and celebrating our successes.Work in a truly agile fashion to turn a massive, unruly problem into thinly sliced deliverables and execute quickly against them 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. Thoughtful test coverage is a given and any escalations from external stakeholders like our onboarding or customer care teams are handled and resolved swiftly. Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up.

You know you’re the right fit if…Extensive experience developing web applications, preferably in an agile SaaS environment.Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack.Strong familiarity with the technologies we use like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, SOAStrong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or KanbanStrong familiarity with Test-Driven-DevelopmentCreativity and proactivity - an ability to solve complex problems without a roadmapYou love to learn about and use new tech, but understand the value of continuing to leverage 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.You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and will learn to advocate for refactoring and clean-ups where appropriate.You care about work-life balance and want your company to care about it, too; you'll put in the extra hour when needed but won't let it become a habit.

Additional Skills and Knowledge:5+ years of experience working in software engineering teamsComfortable working with remote team membersAbility to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goalsAbility to establish strong working relationships with peers across other platform development teamCompensation & BenefitsThe base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $173,000The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc. Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type. 

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.

Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | 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 we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.