Everyone deserves a home they love. We help make the search simple.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will design and build backend services, collaborate with teams to deliver features, and maintain high standards for code quality.
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Who We Are
At Apartment List, we’re transforming how people rent—making it smarter, easier, and a lot less frustrating. Our platform has already matched over a 1.4 million renters with their next home, while helping properties fill units with the right residents. Backed by strong growth and a big vision, we’re building the future of renting—and inviting bold thinkers to help us shape it!
As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Lister team, you’ll build and improve the services and user experiences that power how property partners list, manage, and succeed on Apartment List. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and analysts to deliver high-impact features that improve transparency, usability, and trust for both renters and property partners. You’ll contribute directly to our technical direction while leveling up those around you through code reviews, technical discussions, and cross-team collaboration.
Here’s what you’ll do as part of the team:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power the Lister experience.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and analysts to deliver high-quality features that improve how properties list and manage their inventory.
- Contribute to defining and refining technical solutions, balancing speed with long-term maintainability.
- Write clean, well-tested backend code in Kotlin and Ruby, and build intuitive, performant frontend applications with Typescript and React.
- Partner with other engineering teams across Apartment List to ensure consistent, cohesive solutions that support renter and lister needs.
- Share knowledge with peers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions, helping raise the technical bar across the team.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within organizations that emphasize quality, scalability, and performance.
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems).
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency with relational databases and data modeling.
- Proficiency with at least one of Kotlin, Ruby, or Typescript, with a willingness to learn the others.
- Familiarity with one or more of the following frameworks: React/NextJS, Ruby on Rails, or Java Spring
- Experience working across the stack — from backend services to frontend applications.
- A collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and analysts.
Here's the Pay Range:
At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US base salary range for this position is:
- Zone 1: $170,000 - $207,000 TTC (including $154,000 - $186,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 2: $158,000 - $191,000 TTC (including $142,000 - $172,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 3: $145,000 - $175,000 TTC (including $130,000 - $158,000 base salary) + equity
This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.
We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.
Here's what's in it for you (full-time US based employees only; does not apply to contract roles):
- Competitive Compensation: Including annual salary, pre-IPO stock options, and other financial compensation (if applicable)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: 100% of premiums covered for you AND all of your dependents
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off: Unlimited FTO in addition to 12 company holidays per year, quarterly “recharge” days, and a week-long holiday break
- Home Office Reimbursement: To cover home office furniture and supplies, monthly home internet, and monthly cell phone (if applicable)
- Health & Wellness Reimbursement: To cover monthly gym membership or other qualifying expenses
- Parental Support: Generous parental and family leave, fertility benefits, and employer-sponsored stipends towards family forming services
- 401k Plan: To support you in your individual retirement goals
- Team Events: Frequent team-building events, fun team off-sites, and bi-annual company meetups
- Commitment to DEI: To prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within our workplace and to stay true to our values and mission
- Mentorship and Training: To get you onboard quickly, learn new professional skills, and invest in your career development
- Impact and Visibility: To expose you to and provide the opportunity to work on highly strategic initiatives that will transform the business
- Encouragement and Empowerment: To explore and adopt new technologies and drive meaningful decisions and outcomes
- At Apartment List we believe that everyone deserves a home they love AND a career they love. We strive to build a diverse team that is a reflection of the people we serve; this is made possible through our commitment to fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion, equity, and connectedness.
As a proud equal opportunity employer, we celebrate the collection of individual differences, life experiences, ideas, perspectives, knowledge, and talent. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status.
Top Skills
Java Spring
Kotlin
Nextjs
React
Relational Databases
Restful Apis
Ruby
Ruby On Rails
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
For us, renting is personal — we’re a company built by renters for renters. We’re here to deliver renters a home they love at the value they deserve.
Whether renters are embarking to a new city, in search of a quieter neighborhood, or making the jump to a two-bedroom apartment — we’re here to find them their perfect apartment match.
We’ve made it our mission to revolutionize renting by making it a stress-free, simple, and holistic experience, connecting ready-to-move renters with compatible city living. Home is a feeling everyone should own, and we’re on a mission to help renters find it.
Why Work With Us
Want a job that makes a difference? There are over 100 million renters in the US, and at Apartment List, we strive every day to remove the hassle from renting and make the process better for every single one of them. Together, we can change the narrative around what it means to be a renter.
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