Senior Full-Stack Engineer - SaaS Platform Leader

Appfolio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a senior-level full-stack Software Engineer to join our Leasing Engineering Team and accelerate product development for our SaaS platform used by thousands of property managers. You will shape technical direction, design scalable systems, and mentor engineers to raise the bar.

You’ll work across the stack with Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS, collaborating with product, design, QA, and researchers to deliver robust features at speed while maintaining quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and scaling web-based applications.
• Comfortable across the full stack and breaking down complex problems.
• Experience leading end-to-end technical projects with stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD).
• Deep experience with at least one modern language such as Ruby, Java, or Python.
• Strong automated testing experience and focus on maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, resilient, and elegant web-based solutions to solve complex business problems at scale.
• Lead by example in design, coding, and architecture; mentor and coach other engineers to raise the technical bar across the team.
• Formulate, implement, and optimize algorithms and database queries to ensure SaaS scalability, performance, and stability.
• Design and deliver new features and improve existing ones with a focus on robustness, maintainability, and performance.
• Drive engineering excellence through test-driven development, thoughtful code reviews, and continuous integration practices.
• Collaborate deeply with engineers, QA, product managers, designers, and researchers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Champion agile practices that emphasize collaboration, prioritization, urgency, and accountability to deliver at a rapid pace.
• Proactively research, share, and apply new technologies and patterns that improve system quality and accelerate delivery.

Skills

SaaS web experience

Lead technical projects

CI/CD

Automated testing

Language-agnostic

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

AWS

Service-oriented architectures

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a senior-level full-stack Software Engineer to join our Leasing Engineering Team and accelerate product development for our SaaS platform used by thousands of property managers. You will shape technical direction, design scalable systems, and mentor engineers to raise the bar.

You’ll work across the stack with Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS, collaborating with product, design, QA, and researchers to deliver robust features at speed while maintaining quality and reliability.