Staff Software Engineer (Appfolio Stack)

AppFolio; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering company that is redefining the real estate industry through innovative cloud and AI solutions. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the development of a robust API and integration platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the AppFolio Stack. This role offers the opportunity to shape technology that impacts thousands of developers and property managers, ensuring seamless integration and exceptional user experiences. Be part of a culture that values growth, learning, and making a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Your expertise will drive the evolution of our offerings, making business operations effortless and magical.

Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Growth and Development Opportunities

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Mentorship Programs

Collaborative Culture

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience at a Senior level.
• Experience leading scalable API product development.
• Strong background in API development and web services.

Responsibilities

• Lead a development team to deliver value to stakeholders.
• Identify solutions to reduce friction in integrations.
• Plan for the long-term health and scalability of APIs.

Skills

API Development

REST-based Web Services

Modern Authentication Systems

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Technical Leadership

Empathy for Developers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Rollbar

Datadog

Job description

Staff Software Engineer (Appfolio Stack)

Software Engineering
Remote - San Francisco, CA
Remote - Atlanta, GA
Remote - Chicago, IL
Remote - Denver, CO
Remote - Washington DC, United States
Santa Barbara, California
San Diego, California
Dallas, Texas

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company – we’re pioneers in cloud and AI who deliver magical experiences that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business in the real estate industry, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

AppFolio Stack, our integration marketplace, enables AppFolio Property Manager users to seamlessly incorporate innovative property technology solutions into their stack and solve even more of their business challenges.

Our mission as a critical service for end-users and partners, is to provide a reliable, stable, best-in-class API and integration platform that scales with our customers’ business needs. Through APIs and integrations, we provide leverage for our business and focus on our internal teams.

Your Mission

The AppFolio Stack offering represents an ecosystem of technologies benefiting our customers and partners: A property manager-facing integration marketplace, robust developer APIs and communications channels, web services and infrastructure, internal developer support and contribution. You will lead others in the ongoing growth of this offering to support hundreds of partners and millions of units on the platform. You will own the architecture and drive internal requirements alongside executing product and partner team requirements.

You will not be doing that alone. You’ll work with the Appfolio Stack Team and Staff Product Manager in our group, as well as engineers from across the platform, segment, and product domain groups, to build a platform that will service all stakeholders’ needs now and into the future.

Responsibilities

Across the Appfolio Stack efforts and through cross-team collaborations, you will…

1. Lead a development team to deliver value to a range of stakeholders, including partners, customers, and internal developers.
2. Learn our main software development workflows and the tools that support them.
3. Identify and provide solutions to reduce the friction of bringing new integrations and APIs to market so that product segment/domain teams can easily deliver customer value.
4. Devise and apply techniques to scale AppFolio Stack infrastructure to service our rapidly increasing number of partners and units-on-platform.
5. Analyze and quickly respond to critical issues that affect partners and property managers.
6. Plan for the long-term health, scalability, and extensibility of our API infrastructure.
7. Leverage existing tools and knowhow from other teams across the organization where useful, and be able to build your own when needed.
8. Act as an ambassador and evangelist for AppFolio Stack in the organization, providing clear communication to internal teams and stakeholders.
9. Work with technical writers to refine API documentation and release notes.
10. Add or improve the internal offerings to empower internal teams to contribute to the AppFolio Stack ecosystem.
11. Identify performance bottlenecks and offer solutions to maintain responsive service interactions.

You know you’re the right fit if…

1. You have led efforts to develop and support a scalable partner API product and infrastructure.
2. You are a technical leader and mentor.
3. You have a strong background in API development and REST-based web services, including webhooks.
4. You have deep knowledge of modern authentication and authorization systems and standards and how to integrate them into practical applications.
5. You are passionate about building robust, useful, and performant programming interfaces.
6. You have a strong sense of empathy for developers, both internal and external, and understand the challenges they face to create software rapidly and with high quality.
7. You are a proven technical leader, yet remain open to alternative ideas to reach a reasonable consensus.
8. You have a neverending curiosity in creating well-thought-out, scalable software development infrastructure.
9. You want to be responsible for technology leveraged every day by thousands of software engineers across multiple organizations.
10. You have experience with data languages, tools, and frameworks such as Snowflake and SQL.
11. You have experience with error and performance monitoring systems such as Rollbar and Datadog.

Additional Skills and Knowledge

1. Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
2. 8+ years of experience working in software engineering at a Senior or above level.
3. Highly proficient working in an agile environment.
4. Expert at working with remote team members.
5. Ability to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goals.
6. Drive to establish strong working relationships with peers across other platforms and product development teams.

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $167,200-$209,000.
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.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.

Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.