Senior Software Engineer: Resident Onboarding & Architecture

Appfolio; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the Resident Onboarding domain and shape the architecture of onboarding services, data pipelines, and partner integrations. You will mentor teammates and drive design decisions in a highly collaborative environment on the Real Estate Performance Management platform.

The role emphasizes scalable systems thinking, maintainability, and rapid delivery within an agile team, with a compensation range reflecting market norms for San Diego.

Qualifications

• Understand and explain system design and patterns.
• Own multi-service architecture from design to production support.
• Communicate clearly and drive design decisions with trade-offs.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build deep understanding of the resident onboarding domain end-to-end.
• Design and evolve onboarding architecture including partner integrations and data pipelines.
• Lead design reviews and write technical proposals with clear trade-offs.
• Develop scalable, robust solutions and refactor when needed.
• Define observability and alerting standards for services.

Skills

System design

Architectural ownership

Strong communication

Mentoring

Agile software dev

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

React

AWS

MySQL

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the Resident Onboarding domain and shape the architecture of onboarding services, data pipelines, and partner integrations. You will mentor teammates and drive design decisions in a highly collaborative environment on the Real Estate Performance Management platform.

The role emphasizes scalable systems thinking, maintainability, and rapid delivery within an agile team, with a compensation range reflecting market norms for San Diego.