Sr. Software Engineer - Mixed Portfolio Foundation

AppFolio is a technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. They are seeking a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to join their Mixed Portfolio Foundation team, which is responsible for the foundational architecture and data models for various property types, including affordable and student housing.

Responsibilities:

• Build a deep understanding of our existing mixed portfolio segments, including affordable housing and student housing, enabling you and your team to truly own the foundations of these segments
• Maintain our ongoing business segments, including Community Association, Commercial, NYC and etc
• Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems - this will involve some combination of leveraging our existing technology, refactoring, integrating with partners, or starting from scratch when it makes sense
• Help mentor and guide other software engineers
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Extensive experience designing complex data models that fit into business and compliance requirements
• Extensive experience developing web applications, preferably in an agile SaaS environment
• You've successfully driven architectural improvements to enhance scalability, flexibility, or performance — and know how to advocate for technical changes that benefit the broader platform
• Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack
• Strong familiarity with the technologies we use, like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, SOA
• Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
• Strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
• 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
• You bring your A-game to daily standup competitions — because nothing tastes better than victory (especially when it comes with a free team lunch)
• 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 team
• Experience working across all levels of the development stack
• Experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, SOA
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
• Familiarity with Test-Driven-Development