Sr. Software Engineer - AppFolio, Inc

Hi, We’re AppFolio

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company – we’re pioneers in cloud and AI who deliver magical experiences that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business in the real estate industry, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

Since 2019, we have been energetically supercharging our products with AI. For example, as a renter, if you've ever scheduled an apartment tour over text message, you might've interacted with "Lisa", our AI-powered leasing agent chatbot. Property managers can configure Lisa to offer 24/7 service to prospective tenants, answering their questions about rental listings and scheduling tours. This frees up our property managers to spend more time doing what they love: connecting people to their future "dream home." Moreover, we have several non-public AI-powered and LLM-powered features inside AppFolio Property Manager, including a ChatGPT-like chatbot that can answer questions ("Show me all open Work Orders older than 3 days"), execute actions ("Email all tenants at 123 Garden St that we will be re-paving the parking lot next Tuesday"), and orchestrate workflows ("On the 3rd day of every month, identify all maintenance techs with open work orders, and request a status update from them over email").

About the culture

• Engineers work in small, focused, cross-functional teams comprised of a product manager, user-experience designer, quality-assurance engineer, and 3-6 software engineers. 
• We work closely with customers. For example, engineers are encouraged to participate in customer calls!
• We've adopted some agile practices (pair programming, automated software tests, Jira / Trello / kanban boards, retrospective meetings, stand-up meetings), but we aren't dogmatic about agile/scrum. Teams are empowered to decide how they want to work.
• We work hard, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• We support fully remote work, but we have very nice offices in Santa Barbara, CA and San Diego, CA.

About this job

We're looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join an 8-person data platform development team. 

AppFolio houses data for millions of units across tens of thousands of Property managers. AppFolio customers and internal product development teams leverage this data to make property management easy, efficient, and magical. This team owns the data models, semantic layer, query interfaces, and data connectors that power industry-transforming data-driven experiences.

As a Sr. Software Engineer on this team, you would onboard quickly to a cutting-edge data technology stack, connect frequently with internal and external customers, and work closely with your fellow engineers and cross-functional partners team to execute on these initiatives. This will require exceptional technical competency and collaboration skills.

Required

• 5+ years of recent full-time software engineering experience
• 0.5+ years in your current role
• Web-based Platform development: server-side domains, including at the database level.
• Experience with data analytics tools, pipelines, and user experiences, like OLAP / OLTP architectures, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, Trino.
• Excellent communicator across roles & disciplines.
• Curious, passionate, capable.

Nice-to-have skills

• Ruby on Rails (we are a Rails shop and we have a good onboarding program)
• React

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $173,000.

The 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 that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

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