Software Engineer II

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• Engineers work in small, focused, cross-functional teams comprised of a product manager, user-experience designer, quality-assurance engineer, and 3-6 software engineers. 
• We work closely with customers. For example, engineers are encouraged to participate in customer calls!
• We've adopted some agile practices (pair programming, automated software tests, Jira / Trello / kanban boards, retrospective meetings, stand-up meetings), but we aren't dogmatic about agile/scrum. Teams are empowered to decide how they want to work.
• We work hard, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• We support fully remote work, but we have very nice offices in Santa Barbara, CA and San Diego, CA.

AppFolio houses data for millions of units across tens of thousands of Property managers. AppFolio customers and internal product development teams leverage this data to make property management easy, efficient, and magical. This team owns the data models, semantic layer, query interfaces, and data connectors that power industry-transforming data-driven experiences.

As a Software Engineer II on this team, you would onboard quickly to a cutting-edge data technology stack, connect frequently with internal and external customers, and work closely with your fellow engineers and cross-functional partners team to execute on these initiatives. This will require exceptional technical competency and collaboration skills.

• >2 years of recent full-time software engineering experience
• >0.5 years in your current role
• Web-based Platform development: server-side domains, including at the database level.
• Experience with data analytics tools, pipelines, and user experiences, like OLAP / OLTP architectures, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, Trino.
• Excellent communicator across roles & disciplines.
• Curious, passionate, capable.

• Ruby on Rails (we are a Rails shop and we have a good onboarding program)
• React