Sr. Software Engineer - Platform/CI
About The Position
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. We are hiring a Sr. Software Engineer who is passionate about improving developer productivity and large-scale CI performance in a complex monorepo. This position will join a cross-functional team working on designing, building, and maintaining scalable tooling and infrastructure to improve the local development experience and CI pipelines across engineering teams. Expect to partner closely with other platform and product teams to drive adoption of best practices for build, test, and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience in platform or infrastructure-focused roles.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Ruby and TypeScript in production environments.
- Deep understanding of build systems and developer tooling, with strong proficiency in Docker, Devcontainers, and Bazel/Blaze.
- Proven track record of improving developer productivity and optimizing CI performance in complex monorepos or multi-language codebases.
- Deep familiarity with CI/CD systems and developer productivity tooling.
- Effective communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with shell scripting in a Linux environment
- Creative ability to solve complex problems in collaboration with the product team
- Willingness to work on challenging problems in a dynamic environment with a high degree of uncertainty, autonomy, and alignment
- Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack
- Strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
- You have a high degree of initiative, creativity, persistence, and a strong focus on producing tangible results quickly and pragmatically.
- You love learning about new technologies, but love building real products more.
- 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 time when needed, but won't let it become a habit.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain custom developer tooling that improves the local development experience across multiple languages and platforms.
- Own and evolve CI infrastructure to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable build and test pipelines.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand pain points and design solutions that accelerate their workflows.
- Drive adoption of best practices in build systems, CI pipeline optimization, and automation.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical leadership within the platform organization.
Benefits
- Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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