Senior Software Engineer job at AppFolio in US National

AppFolio; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen the accounting payables module within the SaaS property management platform. You will join a cross-functional team and drive features from design to production, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.

You’ll work with Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS, applying AI-driven development and collaborating with product and design to deliver value quickly and continuously. Remote-friendly in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer.
• Hands-on experience developing web-based SaaS applications.
• Ability to drive impact autonomously through the full SDLC.
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails and languages like Ruby, Java, Go, or Python.
• Experience with AI-driven development and integrating LLMs into production workflows.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams to drive technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, robust web-based solutions to solve complex business problems for customers.
• Formulate and optimize algorithms and database queries to support SaaS scalability and stability.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones for scalability and performance.
• Use TDD, code reviews, CI/CD to deliver high-quality software and rapid bug fixes.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, designers, and customers to gather feedback.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

SaaS experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

Typescript

AWS

SOA

AI integration

Job description

Title: Sr. Software Engineer - Accounting Payables

Location: United States

Job Description

About AppFolio

AppFolio's main product is the AppFolio Property Manager: web-based software for managers of apartment buildings to schedule maintenance, track their finances, and communicate with their tenants. We also make a companion app for tenants to pay their rent, buy renter's insurance, and request maintenance. We love our work because it helps millions of people with these everyday tasks. Our product vision sums it up nicely:

AppFolio creates a world where choosing, living in, owning, and managing communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive.

Since 2019, we have been energetically supercharging our products with AI. We have introduced features such as smart bill upload - SBE, a fully featured AI leasing agent - LISA, a LLM backed chat interface to support property managers using our product - Realm X, and recently an LLM backed workflow system - Realm Flows. These and other features enable us to provide experiences that allow our property managers to automate the mundane and focus more on the tasks that only they are capable of.

About the culture

• Engineers work in small, focused, cross-functional teams composed of a product manager, user-experience designer, quality-assurance engineer, and 3-6 software engineers.
• We work closely with customers. For example, engineers are encouraged to participate in customer calls!
• We've adopted some agile practices (pair programming, automated software tests, Jira / kanban boards, retrospective meetings, stand-up meetings), but we aren't dogmatic about agile/scrum. Teams are empowered to decide how they want to work.
• We work hard, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• We support fully remote work, but we have very nice offices in Santa Barbara, CA and San Diego, CA.

About this job

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a 6-person cross-functional product development team focused on continuing to enhance the accounting module of our Appfolio Property Manager product. This team owns the features that allow our customers to pull in and fully manage their Accounts Payable within our product. We are currently working to enhance these features to support new automation and AI capabilities within this space.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you would onboard quickly to our technology stack and our feature set, align your team on a shared understanding of the problem and solution space, and work closely with your fellow devs and cross-functional partners to execute on these initiatives. This will require technical expertise and leadership, as well as superb communication skills.

Your impact

• 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.
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate algorithms and database queries to support SaaS scalability and stability.
• 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, product owners, designers, and our 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• At least 5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer
• Hands-on work experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment
• The ability to drive impact autonomously and own your work through the full SDLC
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails and experience working with a language like Ruby, Java, Go, or Python
• Experience with AI-driven development and exposure to integrating Large Language Models into production workflows
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners across product and design to drive technical solutions

Nice to Have:

• Experience working across all levels of the development stack
• Experience with additional areas of our stack including Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, AWS, and SOA
• Familiarity with modern ML concepts, such as prediction systems, RAG, and vector search
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development or Spec-Driven Development
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $190,300.

The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.