Staff Software Engineer, Communications at AppFolio - Santa Barbara, CA | Job Transparency - Job Transparency | Find Your Dream Job with Full Salary Transparency

Hi, We’re AppFolio.

We’re innovators, changemakers, 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 love where we work, and you can, too.

Who we are looking for:

We are in search of a Staff Software Engineer to lead our communications space at AppFolio. You are a tech enthusiast, tinkerer, and leader with a track record for shipping exemplary software at scale and inspiring others to achieve the same. You approach software development with a cross-functional, growth-oriented mindset, demonstrating an interest in and respect for all roles within our organization. Additionally, you are a strong mentor and a servant leader of engineering teams, setting a strong example for others to follow. In joining us, you will combine this skillset with knowledge of large scale event driven architectures - making you critical for us to realize our vision to make owning, renting or working on a property seamless and easy.

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Appfolio systems currently send over 1 billion sms and email messages per year and we’re continuing to scale up. Our communications space also features many of our “purple cow” features such as allowing property managers to send LLM curated suggested responses and take suggested actions based on tenant messages saving property managers time on key workflows. Our team’s upcoming work will support a large number of exciting features delivered to our tenants, property manager, owners and vendors that use Appfolio on a regular basis and we can’t wait to have you as part of this journey!

Your impact

Build software solutions that make our communications infrastructure bulletproof
Collaborate with an experienced and highly effective team of passionate engineers and product managers
Redefine solutions that scale with the increasing growth of our customers
Operate in a highly autonomous team that owns the full lifecycle of solutions you build, from discovery to development to production
Talk directly with customers to understand their challenges and get direct feedback on the features you're building
Lead by example and publicly share your knowledge to foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
Pave the way for engineering teams by promoting and implementing best practices, optimizing the developer experience, and establishing a platform dedicated to the continuous delivery of high-quality software

Must have

8+ years of experience working in software engineering teams
Experience building communications frameworks for software companies or experience creating large scale, event driven ecosystems.
Strong capacity and drive to mentor other engineers and continuously uplevel team members as engineers
Proficiency in communication and collaboration, with a resulting reputation for positive influence and accessibility
Strong sense of ownership of the tech and the team
A relentless focus on building exemplary code
The ability to thrive with high levels of personal initiative, autonomy, and responsibility
Extensive experience in developing SaaS web applications and traversing the whole entire delivery process and stack
Proven capability to produce high-quality, maintainable code that serves as a solid foundation for future development
Proficiency in navigating disparate software systems and reconciling opportunities within messaging and data schemes.
Experience with modern (AWS, GCP, or Azure) cloud software tools and methodologies, such as infrastructure as code
Experience with modern (CircleCI, Cypress, Playwright) CI/CD and automation frameworks
Excellent collaboration skills to contribute cross-functionally and in a team setting

Nice to Have

Experience with communications vendors such Twilio and Sendgrid (or similar)
Experience with AI/ML technologies

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary/hourly wage that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $169,000-$232,000

The actual base salary/hourly wage 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 - see here.

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