Senior Full-Stack Engineer: SaaS Scale & Leadership

AppFolio; Chicago (IL); 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 drive rapid product development. We work collaboratively to define the technical direction for our SaaS products, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions for thousands of customers.

This role offers leadership in design, coding, and architecture, mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and scaling web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Experience leading technical projects end-to-end—from shaping requirements and architecture through implementation, launch, and ongoing optimization.
• Experience with modern Agile software development practices (Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD).
• You are language agnostic and have deep experience with at least one modern language such as Ruby, Java, or Python.
• You care about long-term maintainability, advocate for clean architecture, and drive continuous refactoring and improvement.

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 experience

Web development

Leadership

CI/CD

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

AWS

SOA

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a senior-level full-stack Software Engineer to join our Leasing Engineering Team and drive rapid product development. We work collaboratively to define the technical direction for our SaaS products, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions for thousands of customers.

This role offers leadership in design, coding, and architecture, mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and performance.