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Sr. Software Engineer (Payments)

AppFolio, Inc
Chicago, IL Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 3/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/5/2025

Description

Hi, We’re AppFolioWe’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.

We are looking for a Senior Payments Software Engineer to play a key role in our Payments Infrastructure development team. In this role, you will contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of our platform, ensuring it remains highly scalable and resilient. You will also collaborate with our Customer Care team to resolve critical customer issues, making a direct impact on our users.

This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate engineer who thrives on working with cutting-edge technology and is motivated to help build a successful SaaS product used by thousands of businesses. Our team values collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence, empowering small teams to drive the technical direction of our solutions.Your impact

  • Work with an engineering team to design, build, modernize, and maintain our highly scalable payments platform.
  • Integrate 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 our risk and fraud teams to detect and investigate fraud across AppFolio’s entire suite of products.

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 have

  • 5 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years spent working in a SaaS payments environment
  • Experience building a payments system that processes billions of dollars each year
  • Understanding of payments system networks, including card systems, ACH, and checking
  • Experience in risk management and the compliance domain
  • Proven experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, AWS, SOA
  • Strong familiarity with Agile software development processes : Scrum or Kanban
  • Strong familiarity with Test-Driven-Development
  • Experience building streaming systems with large amounts of data and complex aggregation logic
  • Experience working on a fraud detection and prevention system
  • Compensation & BenefitsThe 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 -.

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    Why AppFolio

    Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

    Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

    Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

    Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

    Paddle as One.

    Salary : $138,400 - $173,000

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