Sr. Software Engineer - Payments

Hi, We’re AppFolio

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company – we’re pioneers in cloud and AI who deliver magical experiences that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business in the real estate industry, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

What we’re looking for

We are hiring a Senior Payments Software Engineer to be a major contributor to our Payments Infrastructure development team. You will help maintain and enhance our platform with the goal of creating a highly scalable, redundant platform. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for working on 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 collaboratively set the technical direction of our solutions.

Your impact

• Work with an engineering team to design, build, modernize, and maintain our highly scalable payments platform.
• Work with our banking partners to enhance our platform and incorporate analytics to help identify efficiencies and cost savings opportunities.
• Analyze the impact of proposed architectural changes and work with other payments teams to ensure seamless integration, maintain system stability, and align with overall business and technical goals.

Qualifications

• You're passionate about exploring new technologies, but also recognize the value of sticking with tried-and-true solutions when they continue to meet your needs effectively.
• You prioritize the long-term health of the codebase and are committed to learning how to advocate for refactoring and cleanup efforts when they add meaningful value.
• 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.
• Recent experience using Agile methodologies.
• You maintain and uphold a high technical bar on teams you support, while making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of release management and deployment workflow processes, from development release through staging and production deployment.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members. Must have a positive, can-do attitude and value collaboration.
• You are interested in creating exceptional SaaS payments products.

Must haves

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience building enterprise SaaS, cloud-based solutions, or consumer web platforms supporting millions of users and billions of online transactions per month.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading and contributing to the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of large-scale and high-performance platforms, including online web and data/analytics processing.

Nice to have

• Recent experience in the Payment Processing industry
• Recent experience with our tech stack: Ruby-on-Rails, React.js, AWS, and MySQL
• Experience building streaming systems with large amounts of data and complex aggregation logic
• Experience working on a fraud detection and prevention system
• Experience working with Big Data

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 that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.