DESCRIPTION

AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE THE RIGHT FIT IF…

• You have led efforts to develop and support a scalable partner API product and infrastructureTIA!
• You are a technical leader and mentor.
• You have a strong background in API development and REST-based web services, including webhooks.
• You have deep knowledge of modern authentication and authorization systems and standards and how to integrate them into practical applications.
• You are passionate about building robust, useful, and performant programming interfaces.
• You have a strong sense of empathy for developers, both internal and external, and understand the challenges they face to create software rapidly and with high quality.
• You are a proven technical leader, yet remain open to alternative ideas to reach a reasonable consensus.
• You have a neverending curiosity in creating well-thought-out, scalable software development infrastructure.
• You want to be responsible for technology leveraged every day by thousands of software engineers across multiple organizations.
• You have experience working with programming languages and ecosystems such as Ruby, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React.
• You have experience with data languages, tools, and frameworks such as Snowflake and SQL.
• You have experience with error and performance monitoring systems such as Rollbar and Datadog.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience working in software engineering at a Senior or above level.
• Highly proficient working in an agile environment.
• Expert at working with remote team members.
• Ability to think pragmatically and effectively balance business outcomes with technical goals.
• Drive to establish strong working relationships with peers across other platforms and product development teams.

Across the Appfolio Stack efforts and through cross-team collaborations, you will…

• Lead a development team to deliver value to a range of stakeholders, including partners, customers, and internal developers.
• Learn our main software development workflows and the tools that support them.
• Identify and provide solutions to reduce the friction of bringing new integrations and APIs to market so that product segment/domain teams can easily deliver customer value.
• Devise and apply techniques to scale AppFolio Stack™ infrastructure to service our rapidly increasing number of partners and units-on-platform.
• Analyze and quickly respond to critical issues that affect partners and property managers.
• Plan for the long-term health, scalability, and extensibility of our API infrastructure.
• Leverage existing tools and knowhow from other teams across the organization where useful, and be able to build your own when needed.
• Act as an ambassador and evangelist for AppFolio Stack™ in the organization, providing clear communication to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Work with technical writers to refine API documentation and release notes.
• Add or improve the internal offerings to empower internal teams to contribute to the AppFolio Stack™ ecosystem.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and offer solutions to maintain responsive service interactions.