Sr. Software Engineer - Data Query

AppFolio • Dallas, TX

72d • $114,400 - $143,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in our Data Query (analytics data ingestion and data access) team to build out and enhance Appfolio's data streaming and data access systems. Our Analytics Data will be widely used to power customer facing dashboards, reports, BI integrations, and AI powered agents. Appfolio supports a significant part of the real estate market in the United States and our data can be used to unlock many insights for our customers and can be the basis for new tools and capabilities that deliver value for our customers. The first need for the analytics data will be enhanced performance metrics for our 20,000+ customers in the real estate property management industry. This will allow our customers to see trends in their operations and act accordingly to improve and grow their business. We see a future where our Data Query system provides a uniform, robust, and flexible access to data in Appfolio powering a variety of applications, all enhancing the lives and businesses of property managers. This role is pivotal to the creation and adoption of such a system - ultimately unlocking tremendous potential for the real estate industry in the coming years.

Requirements

• Experience building data pipelines at a company with large data sets especially with multi-tenant data in an agile SaaS environment.
• Experience working on platform teams or building platform services, whose customers are other internal teams.
• Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack.
• Proven experience with object oriented languages (python, ruby, JS, Java, C#, etc.).
• Strong SQL proficiency with ability to suggest optimization for query performance and cost efficiency.
• Strong familiarity with REST APIs and web-based APIs.
• Familiarity with core architecture principles of at scale systems.
• Familiarity with public cloud, such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban.
• 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 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.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience working in software engineering teams.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of our data structure and systems - enabling you and your team to build on top of and modify the existing architecture.
• Research and determine key architecture and design decisions to build a scalable, robust, yet simple data access layer.
• Participate in customer research/discovery with Product to understand current problems, needs, and estimate technical feasibility of various potential solutions.
• 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.
• Hold a high bar of engineering excellence and always look for ways to raise it.
• Together with your team, ensure the data flowing through our data pipelines is tested with appropriate unit and integration tests.
• Deliverables are always well-instrumented. Queries and dashboards are easily accessible and regularly used to drive decisions as well as measure progress.
• Enthusiastically participate in a high performing, empowered team with high levels of mutual trust and respect.
• Design and implement systems responsible for high concurrency access to large data sets.
• Identify gaps, deficiencies and inefficiencies in the system. Propose and implement solutions.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $114,400 - $143,000.
• Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries