Sr. Software Engineer - Resident Concierge

AppFolio • Santa Barbara, CA

19d

About The Position

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 our Resident Concierge team. The team's mission is to own the security and scalability of the product, crafting a strong foundation for the growth of our resident products. 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 in order to build a scalable successful SaaS product used by millions of happy residents. We foster an environment that empowers small teams to set the technical direction of our solutions collaboratively. Your Impact: Build a deep understanding of our Resident segment enabling you and your team to truly own the growth strategy. Maintain our ongoing business segments, including our brokerage offerings. 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. Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum scalability, stability, and performance. Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up. Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QE, product owners, and our APM customers. Leverage agile practices to release small batches of value to customers continuously. – test-driven development, pair programming, live code review, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Proven experience designing complex data models that fit into business requirements.
• Proven experience developing web applications in an agile SaaS environment.
• Extensive experience with Python and Typescript in production environments.
• Extensive experience with SQL.
• Strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development.
• Effective communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Creative ability to solve complex problems in collaboration with the product team.
• You have a high degree of initiative, creativity, persistence, and a strong focus on producing tangible results quickly and pragmatically.
• You are proactive about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and advocate for refactoring and clean-ups where appropriate.
• You love learning about new technologies, but love building real products more.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of our Resident segment enabling you and your team to truly own the growth strategy.
• Maintain our ongoing business segments, including our brokerage offerings.
• 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.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum scalability, stability, and performance.
• Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up.
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QE, product owners, and our APM customers.
• Leverage agile practices to release small batches of value to customers continuously. – test-driven development, pair programming, live code review, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed