Manager, Software Engineering (Affordable Housing)

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 the way people do business, and we want your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your passion to help us keep on innovating.

We love where we work, and you can, too.

Who we are looking for:

Are you passionate about expanding housing opportunities? Do you want to play your part in addressing the affordable housing crisis in the US? We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead, coach, and continuously improve our talented and focused Affordable Housing team.

Your mission is to develop your team and execute such that our product makes applying for, living in, and managing Affordable Housing units feel effortless and simple. Affordable Housing is an enormously complex domain - requiring complex data gathering and recurring submission of that data for certification and compliance. All within a diverse and ever-shifting regulatory environment. Things get very complicated very fast and property managers can struggle to keep up. With this team’s focus, innovation, and attention to detail we see a future where it doesn’t have to be this way.

This engineering leader will manage and develop a truly world-class software engineering team responsible for bringing this mission to reality.

The ideal candidate we're looking for is passionate about hands-on engineering work, growing highly productive and engaged technical teams, and building leading-edge SaaS products used by thousands of happy customers. We foster an environment that empowers our small teams to collaboratively set the technical direction of our solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and support a highly effective team of passionate engineers to foster a high-performance culture of excellence.
• Build trusting relationships and collaborate across departments to execute on company strategy.
• Set the technical direction for the team, drive the evolution of the systems architecture, and make appropriate technology choices.
• Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices including continuous deployment, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
• Take a hands-on approach to the entire software development lifecycle: perform day-to-day project management to ensure successful, on-time releases; demonstrate ownership and accountability for the team’s delivery.
• Work effectively with product managers, engineers, and the engineering leadership team to allocate engineering resources appropriately across various projects, including balancing customer needs with longer-term product roadmap needs.
• Promote a SMART codebase (Simple, Maintainable, Agile, Refactored, and Tested) for a SAFE product (Secure, Available, Fast, and Easy).
• Implement processes and metrics to ensure that the team is extremely efficient and focused and that products are market-ready.
• Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization.
• Ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of AppFolio as a company and how their work fits into the bigger picture.

Skills & Knowledge:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Proven experience leading engineering teams during the evolution of the Engineering function from start-up to mid lifecycle.
• 2+ years of successfully hiring, directly managing, coaching, and retaining world-class engineers.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading and contributing to the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of large-scale and high-performance platforms.
• Well-versed not only in the typical Agile rituals and practices - but also the modern, genuinely agile practices of rapid experimentation and continuous delivery of value.
• 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.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits

• Medical
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits