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Software Engineer II - Resident Concierge

Yesterday Columbus, OH
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 how people do business, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.


Who we are looking for:
We are hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer II to join our Resident Concierge team. The team's mission is to own the security and scalability of the product, crafting a strong foundation for the growth of our resident products. 
This will be an engineering-driven team where engineers will have the agency to identify and advocate for the changes needed to support other teams. Engineers will play a key role in setting the technical direction and driving best practices to ensure scalability and flexibility. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for building leading-edge software and solving problems with long term solutions in order to build a scalable successful SaaS product used by millions of happy residents. We foster an environment that empowers small teams to set the technical direction of our solutions collaboratively.

Your Impact:
  • Build a deep understanding of our Resident segment enabling you and your team to truly own the growth strategy.
  • Maintain our ongoing business segments, including our brokerage offerings.
  • 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.
  • 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, QE, 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.

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You know you’re the right fit if…
  • 2 - 4 years of experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
  • Proven experience designing complex data models that fit into business requirements.
  • Proven experience developing web applications, preferably in an agile SaaS environment.
  • You’ve have experience working with Python and have experience or understand Django. You may even know enough about React and Typescript 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.
Nice to Have:
  • Experience working across all levels of the development stack
  • Experience with some areas of our tech like Python, Django, React, SQL, AWS, SOA
  • Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
  • Familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
  • Creativity, ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap

Location
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Compensation & Benefits
The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $114,400 - $143,000 base pay. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.
Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
Client-provided location(s): Columbus, OH
Job ID: o1ggzfwQ-CPWLYfwe
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-01-21T18:32:05

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion