Software Engineer II - AppFolio Stack™

Description

About AppFolio

We’re innovators, change-makers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company — we’re a cloud-based powerhouse that creates products to make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing the way people do business, and we want your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your passion to help us keep on innovating. We listen to our customers, it’s in our DNA.

This is a role that works to the benefit of multiple stakeholders: Our company’s customers, key integration partners, and internal software developers. You’d be joining a group that is responsible for crafting a software development experience that encompasses a complete partnership ecosystem.

Platform Mission

To accelerate development through common services, APIs, portals and other product platforms, and drive effective, maintained, compliant and highly-engaging customer experiences across the AppFolio Property Manager product platform.

AppFolio Stack™

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 integration platform that scales with our customers’ business needs. Through integrations, we enable internal product development teams to focus on the areas of our product we want to own.

Your Mission

The AppFolio Stack™ offering represents an ecosystem of technologies to build upon: A property manager-facing integration marketplace; clear partner APIs and communications channels; web services and infrastructure; internal developer support and contribution. You will contribute to the ongoing growth of this offering to support hundreds of partners and hundreds of thousands of units on the platform.

You will not be doing that alone. You’ll work with the Stack Team and Product Managers, as well as engineers from across the platform, segment, and product domain groups, to extend and maintain a platform that will service all stakeholders’ needs now and into the future.

Responsibilities

• Learn our main software development workflows and the tools that support them
• Implement solutions to reduce the friction of bringing new integrations and APIs to market so that product segment/domain teams can easily deliver customer value.
• Analyze and quickly respond to critical issues that affect partners and property managers.
• Leverage existing tools and knowhow from other teams across the organization where useful, and be able to build your own when needed.
• Work with technical writers to refine API documentation and release notes.
• Help to improve the internal offerings to enable other teams to more easily contribute to, or leverage, the AppFolio Stack™ ecosystem.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to maintain responsive service interactions.
  
  

You know you’re the right fit if…

• You have some background in API development and REST-based web services
• You are passionate about building robust, useful and performant programming interfaces
• You have a sense of empathy for developers, both internal and external, and understand the challenges they face to create software rapidly and with high quality
• You have never-ending curiosity in creating well thought out, scalable, software development infrastructure
• You want to contribute to a platform technology leveraged every day by thousands of software engineers, across multiple organizations
• You have some experience working with programming languages and ecosystems such as Ruby, React, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
• You leverage data languages, tools and frameworks such as snowflake and SQL
• You employ error and performance monitoring systems such as Rollbar, Datadog, New Relic, and Grafana
  
  

Additional Skills and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience working in software engineering
• Proficient working in an agile environment
• Collaborate effectively with other remote team members
• Ability to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goals
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with peers and teammates
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $106,000-$160,000

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/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits
  
  

Interns / full-time temporary / eligible variable hour employees are eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Medical
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits
  
  

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.