Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Scale SaaS & Lead

AppFolio; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is looking for a senior full-stack Software Engineer to join the Leasing Engineering Team. You will help define the technical direction for our SaaS products and drive rapid product development while ensuring reliability and maintainability.

You will lead with hands-on design and coding, mentor peers, and collaborate with product, QA, designers, and researchers to deliver end‑to‑end solutions. A strong emphasis on scalable architecture and agile practices guides daily work at AppFolio.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and scaling web-based applications in SaaS.
• Experience leading technical projects end-to-end—from shaping requirements and architecture through implementation, launch, and ongoing optimization.
• Strong experience with agile software development practices (Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD).
• Deep experience with at least one modern language such as Ruby, Java, or Python.

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

Web development

SaaS

Leadership

Agile practices

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

AWS

SOA / microservices

Job description

AppFolio is looking for a senior full-stack Software Engineer to join the Leasing Engineering Team. You will help define the technical direction for our SaaS products and drive rapid product development while ensuring reliability and maintainability.

You will lead with hands-on design and coding, mentor peers, and collaborate with product, QA, designers, and researchers to deliver end‑to‑end solutions. A strong emphasis on scalable architecture and agile practices guides daily work at AppFolio.