Senior Software Engineer – Onboarding Systems Architect

Appfolio; Santa Barbara (CA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Resident Onboarding team. You will own end-to-end residency onboarding systems, integrate partners, and shape data pipelines, influencing system design and ongoing maintenance.

The role demands a strong background in scalable architectures, collaboration across teams, and an emphasis on code quality with thorough testing. We value engineers who can drive technical direction in a small, empowered unit.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production web services.
• Ownership of the architecture of a multi-service system, from design through production support.
• Production experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, or a comparable web stack, with willingness to work in both.
• Clear communication skills: you know how to be heard and listen.
• Track record of leading technical design across a team and influencing engineers who do not report to you.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of the resident onboarding domain, enabling you and your team to truly own it end to end.
• Design and evolve the service architecture for onboarding, including partner integrations, data pipelines, and the interfaces other AppFolio teams build against.
• Lead design reviews, author technical proposals, and drive decisions to closure with clear trade‑off analysis.
• Develop scalable, robust, and simple solutions to complex business problems, refactoring or starting fresh when it makes sense.
• Define observability and alerting standards for the team's services so that every alert is actionable and every incident has a clear owner.
• Mentor and guide other engineers through in‑depth code review, pairing, and healthy technical debate.
• Work in a truly agile fashion to turn a large, unruly problem into thinly sliced deliverables and execute quickly against them.
• 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.

Skills

5+ years exp

System architecture ownership

Ruby on Rails / Go

Clear communication

Technical design leadership

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

React

MySQL

AWS

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Resident Onboarding team. You will own end-to-end residency onboarding systems, integrate partners, and shape data pipelines, influencing system design and ongoing maintenance.

The role demands a strong background in scalable architectures, collaboration across teams, and an emphasis on code quality with thorough testing. We value engineers who can drive technical direction in a small, empowered unit.