Software Engineer II (Payments)

Company: AppFolio, Inc.
Location: Santa Barbara
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Software Engineer II (Payments Infrastructure)Software Engineering Santa Barbara, California, Dallas, Texas, San Diego, California, Remote, United StatesAppFolio 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.We love where we work, and you can, too.We are hiring a full-stack mid-level Software Engineer to be a major contributor to our Payments Infrastructure development team. You will help bring our platform to the next level with the goal of building a highly scalable, redundant platform while managing risk and mitigating financial fraud to help reduce AppFolio's overall risk exposure.Your responsibilities will include working with an engineering team to design, build, modernize, and maintain our highly scalable payments platform. You will integrate with our banking partners to enhance our platform and incorporate analytics to help identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings. You will help analyze the impact of proposed architectural changes and work with our risk and fraud teams to detect and investigate fraud across AppFolio's entire suite of products.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

• Develop scalable and robust Payments infrastructure and user interface that simplifies our customers' payment flows while reducing risk and fraud.
• Collaborate with a strong cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and payments operations stakeholders to build a highly reliable and accurate, world-class payments platform.
• Research, share, and recommend new technologies and trends that will help modernize our payments infrastructure.
• 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, and product owners.
• Leverage agile practices in start-up mode, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace.Qualifications
  • You love learning about new technologies but understand the value of continuing to use 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
    • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
    • 4+ years of software engineering experience outside of school.
    • Recent Ruby experience is highly preferred.
    • Recent experience building streaming systems with large amounts of data and complex aggregation logic.
    • Experience with some other areas of our tech like React, Redux, AWS, SOA.
    • Proven experience working across all levels of the development stack.
    • Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban.
    • Strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development.
    • Creativity, ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap.The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $114,400 - $143,000.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/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type. Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.Why AppFolio
      • Grow - We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards.
      • Learn - We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start.
      • Impact - We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless.
      • Connect - We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are.Paddle as One.Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careersStatement of Equal OpportunityAt AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture.
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