Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AppFolio is a cloud-based software company powering the future of the real estate industry. The Senior Software Engineer will build scalable web-based solutions for the Affordable Housing domain, implement and optimize features, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality SaaS products.
Responsibilities
- Build a deep understanding of our existing Affordable Housing segment, enabling you and your team to truly own the domain
- Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems - this will involve some combination of leveraging our existing technology, refactoring, integrating with partners, or starting from scratch when it makes sense
- Help mentor and guide other software engineers
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
- Work closely with and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QA, product owners, and designers. Enthusiastically participate in a high-performing, empowered team with high levels of mutual trust and respect. Along with the team, you will take ownership of your problem space, reflecting on and growing from our failures and celebrating our successes
- Work in a truly agile fashion to turn a massive, unruly problem into thinly sliced deliverables and execute quickly against them while limiting work in progress
- Research, share, and recommend new technologies and trends
- Hold a high bar of engineering excellence and always look for ways to raise it. Adopt our engineering best practices, provide and receive in-depth code reviews, and participate in healthy debate as a team. Evangelize your own expertise and experience among your teammates and the rest of the organization
- Prioritize quality. Thoughtful test coverage is a given and any escalations from external stakeholders like our onboarding or customer care teams are handled and resolved swiftly. Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up
Skills
- * Have extensive experience developing web applications, preferably in an agile SaaS environment
- * Have proven experience working across all levels of the development stack
- * Have strong familiarity with the technologies we use like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, SOA
- * Have strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
- * Have strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
- * Have creativity and proactivity - an ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap
- * Love to learn about and use new tech, but understand the value of continuing to leverage existing technology when it gets the job done
- * Care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and advocate for refactoring and code cleanliness
- * Can identify and resolve code-smells through sensible refactoring
- * 5+ years of experience working in software engineering teams
- * Comfortable working with remote team members
- * Ability to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goals
- * Ability to establish strong working relationships with peers across other platform development teams
- * Experience working across all levels of the development stack
- * Experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, AWS, SOA
- * Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
- * Familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
- * Knowledge of TRACS, iMAX system , Knowledge of HUD 202D Guidelines
Benefits
- Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits
- Additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type
- Opportunities for growth
- Coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders
- Giving you the time and tools to develop your skills
- Hybrid work
- An environment that feels flexible, personal and connected
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