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AppFolio

Software Engineer II (Accounting)

San Diego, CA
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. 
  
Join our dynamic team where innovation meets impact as we redefine the landscape of accounting software. This high visibility, high impact team focuses on revolutionizing our core accounting offering, winning customers, and shaping the very future of our product. Candidates for this role will dive headfirst into solving unique, challenging accounting problems, craft delightful user interfaces, and engineer automation solutions that propel our customers' growth.     

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We are hiring a mid-level Full Stack Software Engineer II to join our Accounting domain and contribute to our rapid product development pace.  We work collaboratively to set the technical direction for our SaaS products, developing easy-to-use solutions for our customers.  Our engineers find deep satisfaction in building things that customers actually need.  We focus on delivering value to customers and understand that this often means delivering code that isn't perfect but meets customer needs.    
  
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for building leading-edge software and is driven to help build a successful SaaS product used by thousands of happy businesses. We foster an environment that empowers small teams to set the technical direction of our solutions collaboratively.  
       
    
Your Impact      

Become a master of your software engineering craft, and work with other software engineers who are smart enough to teach you, and humble enough to learn from you.  
Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems for our customers.  
Formulate, implement, and evaluate algorithms and database queries to support SaaS scalability and stability.  
Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum scalability, stability, and performance.  
Use test-driven development, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high-quality software and rapidly fix bugs as they come up.  
Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QA, product owners, and our APM customers.  
Leverage agile practices to release small batches of value to customers continuously. – test-driven development, pair programming, live code review, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.  
       

Qualifications     
  • You’ve heard of Ruby and Rails and have experience working with a language like Ruby, Java, or Python. You may even know enough about Javascript to have opinions about how frequently "the new hot thing" changes.  
  • You love learning about new technologies but understand the value of using something old if it still does everything you need it to do.  
  • You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and will learn to advocate for refactoring and clean-ups where appropriate.  
  • You care about work-life balance and want your company to care about it, too; you'll put in the extra hour when needed but won't let it become a habit.  
   
Must Haves    
  • Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline  
  • Hands-on work/internship experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment  
  • Creativity, ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap 
  • Experience working across all levels of the development stack 
  • Experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, AWS, SOA 
  • Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban 
  • Familiarity with Test-Driven-Development   

    

Compensation & Benefits    
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $106,000-$160,000.    
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 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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Client-provided location(s): San Diego, CA, USA
Job ID: o1iBsfw6
Employment Type: Other