About the job
Description
Hi, We’re AppFolio
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’s Data Engineers are creating the Data Platform to power the business’ Analytics and Data Science teams. This key role will work to establish a single source of truth for KPI’s across AppFolio and enable the discovery of impactful insights about our business and customers to inform company strategy.
The Data Engineer will work cross-functionally with analysts and researchers throughout the business to understand analytics and reporting needs, and engineer creative solutions to address these at scale. This will be accomplished through developing and implementing ETL scripts, orchestrating them, creating Tableau Dashboards, and contributing to key analytics initiatives requiring a high degree of technical knowledge and skills.
Primary Areas Of Responsibility
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $108,000-$149,000.
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 - see here.
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.
Hi, We’re AppFolio
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’s Data Engineers are creating the Data Platform to power the business’ Analytics and Data Science teams. This key role will work to establish a single source of truth for KPI’s across AppFolio and enable the discovery of impactful insights about our business and customers to inform company strategy.
The Data Engineer will work cross-functionally with analysts and researchers throughout the business to understand analytics and reporting needs, and engineer creative solutions to address these at scale. This will be accomplished through developing and implementing ETL scripts, orchestrating them, creating Tableau Dashboards, and contributing to key analytics initiatives requiring a high degree of technical knowledge and skills.
Primary Areas Of Responsibility
- Design, build, maintain, and refine ETL pipelines behind the ‘source of truth’ tables and views in Snowflake
- Create, maintain, and refine ‘source of truth’ dashboards and data sources for analytics teams and leaders in Tableau Online
- Take on ad-hoc reporting and analytics projects as necessary to support key initiatives across the business
- Identify reliability, scalability and data quality issues by building observability and tests in the system, and strive to continuously improve the system
- Identify opportunities for automating and self-servicing processes, and lead the efforts to implement them
- Drive the deployment and release cycles, ensuring a robust and scalable platform
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and cross functional teams to design data models, database schemas and data storage solutions, helping them to solve problems and create innovative analytics models and solutions in a fast-paced environment
- Stay up to date with the latest data engineering trends, technologies, and best practices
- 2+ years of experience designing, developing and maintaining ETL data pipelines while adhering to software engineering best practices
- Expertise in data extraction via RESTful APIs in Python using multithreading and asynchronous paradigms
- Proficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Airflow and DBT
- Experience with data warehouse technology such as Snowflake including data security and governance
- Solid experience monitoring and enforcing data quality using end-to-end observability.
- Experience with cloud technology especially AWS tech stack (s3, ec2, eks), docker and kubernetes
- Understanding of data modeling principles with experience serving as data steward for business-critical data/reporting assets
- Experience with design and ownership of reporting layers of BI solution with advanced working knowledge of Tableau
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
- Experience building Semantic layers for data platforms is desired
- Experience with CI/CD and automated testing
- Experience with building self-serve processes
- Experience with Snowplow and clickstream
- Experience with Agile software development processes
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $108,000-$149,000.
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 - see here.
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.