Senior Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven SaaS Architect

Appfolio; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio, a cloud-based SaaS and AI-first engineering company, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Resident Concierge subsegment, designing and building scalable, production-grade systems and mentoring teams in a high-growth environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and ML leaders to translate ambitious business needs into reliable software, leveraging modern architectures and AI-assisted techniques to deliver value to property managers and residents.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing and scaling web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Experience leading architectural discussions, defining system design, and guiding technical decision-making.
• Experience driving high-stakes projects from ambiguity to launch while ensuring long-term system health.
• Proactively adopting AI tooling into daily workflow with effective prompting and validation.
• Advocate for clean architecture and continuous refactoring to maintain code quality.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision and strategy across the Resident Concierge subsegment, influencing the roadmap and key architectural decisions.
• Lead design and implementation of distributed systems to power next-generation products and handle increased traffic.
• Coach engineers to foster a high-trust, autonomous culture with ownership and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Machine Learning leaders to bridge AI possibilities with customer value.
• Own the full lifecycle of solutions from discovery to production, including deployment and monitoring.
• Research and apply new technologies to improve system quality and accelerate delivery.
• Use test-driven development, code reviews, and CI to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Mentoring

AI tooling adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Golang

React

AWS

Job description

AppFolio, a cloud-based SaaS and AI-first engineering company, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Resident Concierge subsegment, designing and building scalable, production-grade systems and mentoring teams in a high-growth environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and ML leaders to translate ambitious business needs into reliable software, leveraging modern architectures and AI-assisted techniques to deliver value to property managers and residents.