Senior Software Engineer - Onboarding Systems Architecture

AppFolio Inc; Goleta (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Resident Onboarding team to own end-to-end onboarding systems, including integrations with partners and data pipelines.

You will shape the architecture, lead design reviews, and mentor peers while delivering robust, scalable solutions in an agile environment from Go/Rails-based tech stack. You will work on a domain that unifies utilities, insurance, and data flows to reduce move-in friction, contributing to a reliable platform in Real

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.
• Crisp communication skills: you know how to be heard and better-yet… listen
• Track record of leading technical design across a team and influencing engineers who do not report to you.

Responsibilities

• Own the onboarding service architecture, including partner integrations and data pipelines.
• 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 an agile fashion to turn a large, unruly problem into thinly sliced deliverables and execute quickly against them.
• Prioritize quality with thoughtful test coverage and effective handling of escalations.

Skills

Software architecture

System design

Third-party integrations

Design patterns

Communication

Technical leadership

AI-assisted development

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

React

MySQL

AWS

SOA

Job description

AppFolio Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Resident Onboarding team to own end-to-end onboarding systems, including integrations with partners and data pipelines.

You will shape the architecture, lead design reviews, and mentor peers while delivering robust, scalable solutions in an agile environment from Go/Rails-based tech stack. You will work on a domain that unifies utilities, insurance, and data flows to reduce move-in friction, contributing to a reliable platform in Real