Sr. Mobile Software Engineer

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Mission:
As a key contributor to App Folio's mobile team, you will work closely with a passionate group of engineers to build and maintain our mobile apps for property managers, tenants, vendors, and future additional adjacent customers in the real estate vertical.

Outcomes:

• Leverage strong experience developing React-based applications to help build and maintain robust React Native application experiences.
• Maintain a strong and stable platform that supports iOS and Android mobile applications for Appfolio Property Manager and Tenant Portal.
• The platform remains modern and up to date with key dependencies and frameworks.
• Mobile applications adhere to all Apple App Store and Google Play Store requirements.
• The building and testing for mobile can be easily learned by other developers through robust and well-maintained documentation.
• Experience teams do not need to think or worry about forward/backward compatibility of the Mobile Platform -- it is handled for them.

Mobile Experiences:

• Support the efforts of other teams to create great mobile experiences, particularly those that require deep integration, such as Push Notifications, Offline Support, Platform Payments, etc.
• Lead with a customer-focused mindset -- magical end users experiences, and practical internal developer experiences.
• Own team projects: leading planning, estimation, implementation, and maintenance.
• Proactively communicate and actively integrate into external experience teams to provide a high level of responsiveness and service to fulfill the requirements of a given project.
• Educate others on Mobile Platform development and integration.
• Be a mentor for Mobile Application builds and testing.
• Honor commitments to customers, business, and peers through diligence and reliability.

Skills

• Ability to leverage experience developing React-based applications to help build and maintain robust React Native application experience.
• Strong professional proficiency in native mobile development with either Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift).
• Deep understanding of the common architecture of mobile applications.
• Strong native APIs knowledge for deep integrations with iOS and Android platform features.
• Proficiency with numerous technologies, tools, and frameworks used for mobile application development, such as React Native, Xcode, Android Studio, Graph
  
  QL, node.js, etc.
• Commit to high-quality deliverables through a commitment to test automation.
• Embody agility, breaking large stories down into smaller ones and iterating to provide great solutions.

Competencies

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Comfortable jumping into a large (or third-party/open-source) codebase and quickly orienting one’s self.
• Excellent coding and design skills.
• Practices test driven development.
• Committed to pair programming.

Execution

• Able to make decisions quickly without complete information.
• Is not afraid to release something minimal.
• Value/outcome oriented mindset.
• Able to simplify problems.
• Recognizes business wins and celebrates with the team.

Communication

• Communicates effectively with teammates.
• Works well across all roles (PM, UX, QA, and SE).
• Willing to engage in public speaking.
• Willing to engage with the open-source community.

Continuous Improvement

• Joyfully takes feedback and incorporates it into day to day operation.
• Willing to give others feedback with a caring attitude.
• Committed to continuous improvement through retrospection.
• Mentors other engineers on the team, helping them find their voice, develop technical expertise, resolve blockers, and find opportunities to grow.

Character

• Extremely tenacious -- does not give up.
• Sees problems as opportunities.
• Stays positive, even through tough challenges.

Compensation & Benefits
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The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400-$173,000.

About App Folio
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App Folio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry.

Statement of Equal Opportunity
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At App Folio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture.