- Senior
- Escritório em Santa Barbara
Description
- Engineering Execution & Operational Excellence: Lead engineering execution across product and platform teams, owning the health & scalability of our cloud-native multi-tenant architecture. Drive and continuously evolve engineering best practices and KPIs through a disciplined, outcomes-driven approach. Drive strategic allocation of engineering resources to maximize ROI.
- Leadership & Organizational Design at Scale: Attract, grow, and retain world-class engineering talent, building a culture of high performance, inclusion, and continuous learning. Lead through trust, transparency and accountability. Scale a high-performing, distributed engineering organization through leadership, structure and process at an exciting company inflection point.
- Strategic Technology Leadership: We’re a product-led company with a strong engineering and design culture. You’ll define and execute long-term technical strategy in close partnership with the CTO and product leadership, aligning engineering investments with business goals, and evolving our SaaS platform for reliability, scale, and speed. Support technical diligence, planning, and integration for M&A, ensuring new technologies and teams align with engineering culture and standards.
- Customer-Centric Product Development: We’re solving real problems for real customers, with empathy, speed, and craft. You’ll champion a connection between engineering and customer needs, driving a culture of feedback and iteration, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term outcomes. Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, Data, and Customer Experience to align priorities and foster a unified team culture.
- Security & Scalability: Architect and oversee the development of highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems that can support our rapid growth and demanding customer needs. Partner with security, privacy, and compliance teams to uphold company standards and proactively manage risk across systems & processes. Act as the bridge between teams to ensure great outcomes for our customers and the company as a whole.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 8+ years in senior leadership roles managing large engineering organizations.
- Proven success in leading and scaling engineering teams in building and evolving complex, cloud-native platforms with a focus on resilience and simplicity.
- Deep technical and architectural judgment; comfort making strategic tradeoffs.
- Track record of delivering customer-centric products in partnership with Product and Design.
- Familiarity with modern development practices, continuous delivery, DevOps, and agile.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to translate business objectives into technical strategies and operational execution.
- Significant experience leading large-scale engineering organizations in SaaS environments.
- Demonstrated ability to drive transformation, foster high-performing culture, and lead through growth and complexity. Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and inspire at all levels.
- Strong cross-functional influence and communication skills; low-ego, high-trust leadership style.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
About AppFolio
AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.
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.
Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers
Statement of Equal Opportunity
At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.
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