AppFolio · 20 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer - Data Query
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$138K/yr - $173K/yr
5+ years expAppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their data streaming and access systems, which will be crucial for providing analytics data to customers in the real estate market.
AnalyticsComputerInformation TechnologyProperty ManagementPropTechSaaSSoftwareWeb Hosting
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 the data flowing through our data pipelines is 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
Qualification
Required
Experience building data pipelines at a company with large data sets especially with multi-tenant data 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
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
Company
AppFolio
AppFolio is a cloud business management solutions provider for the real estate industry.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
Investment Group of Santa BarbaraHeadline
2015-06-26IPO
2013-11-01Series Unknown
2009-08-18Series C· $8M
Leadership Team
Shane Trigg
President and CEO
Tim Eaton
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-11-25
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