Sr. Software Engineer - Performance Insights at AppFolio

You're a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with at least 5 years of experience, particularly adept at building data access layers or implementing systems like C

Work type: remote

Location: Dallas, Texas; San Diego, California; Remote - San Francisco, CA; Remote - Denver, CO; Remote - Atlanta, GA; Remote - Chicago, IL; Remote - Washington DC, United States

Salary: $138,400 – $173,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You're a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with at least 5 years of experience, particularly adept at building data access layers or implementing systems like Cube or Dbt Metrics, preferably within an agile SaaS environment. **What makes it worth a look...** AppFolio is hiring a fully remote Senior Software Engineer with a salary range of $138,400 - $173,000 per year. The role focuses on building out their Data Access Layer to power customer-facing dashboards and AI agents for their 20,000+ real estate property management customers. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have experience building semantic layers or implementing tools like Cube or Dbt Metrics. * Possess strong SQL proficiency and familiarity with REST APIs. * Are comfortable with public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and Agile methodologies. * Have experience working on platform teams serving internal customers.

Job Description

### Description

Who we are looking for:
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in our Performance Insights team to define and build out Appfolio’s Data Access Layer and accompanying customer metrics. Our Data Access Layer will be widely used to power customer facing dashboards, reports, BI integrations, and AI powered agents. The first use for the data access layer will be an enhanced user experience delivering performance metrics for our 20,000+ customers in the real estate property management industry as well as suggested actions based on the data. This will allow our customers to easily take action based on trends in their operations to improve and grow their business.

Appfolio supports a significant part of the real estate market in the United States and our data can be used to unlock many insights for our customers and can be the basis for new tools and capabilities that deliver value for our customers. 

We see a future where our data access layer provides a uniform, robust, and flexible access to data in Appfolio powering real estate performance metrics that help property managers to improve the health of their business. This role is pivotal to the creation and adoption of such a system - ultimately unlocking tremendous potential for the real estate industry in the coming years.
Responsibilities:

• Build a deep understanding of our data structure and systems - enabling you and your team to build on top of and modify the existing architecture.

• Research and determine key architecture and design decisions to build a scalable, robust, yet simple data access layer - this will involve some combination of leveraging our existing technology, refactoring existing systems, including off the shelf systems, or starting from scratch when it makes sense.

• Participate in customer research/discovery with Product to understand current problems, needs, and estimate technical feasibility of various potential solutions.

• 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. 

• 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.

• Together with your team, you ensure our backend and user facing systems are tested with appropriate unit and integration tests to ensure the correct data makes it to our customers.

• Together with your team, your deliverables are always well-instrumented. Queries and dashboards are easily accessible and regularly used to drive decisions as well as measure progress. 

• 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 and growing from our failures and celebrating our successes.

• Design and implement systems responsible for high concurrency access to large data sets

• Identify gaps, deficiencies and inefficiencies in the system. Propose and implement solutions.

• Experience building a semantic layer at a company with large data sets or implementing an off the shelf system such as Cube or Dbt Metrics, preferably in an agile SaaS environment.

• Experience working on platform teams or building platform services, whose customers are other internal teams.

• Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack.

• Proven experience with object oriented languages (python, ruby, JS, Java, C#, etc.)

• Strong SQL proficiency with ability to suggest optimization for query performance and cost efficiency

• Strong familiarity with REST APIs and web-based APIs

• Familiarity with core architecture principles of at scale systems

• Experience with BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI, etc. 

• Familiarity with public cloud, such as AWS, GCP, Azure

• Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban

• Creativity and proactivity - an ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap

• You love to learn about and use new tech, but understand the value of continuing to leverage existing technology when it gets the job done.

• You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and advocate for refactoring and code cleanliness.

• You 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

Compensation & Benefits       
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $173,000.       
     
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 - [see here](https://www.appfolioinc.com/careers/life-at-appfolio).  
#LI-SS2About AppFolio

AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.

Why AppFolioGrow | 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.

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