About Appirio

Developer / Associate Developer


About Us

Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of on-demand. Appirio has a proven track record of delivering business value to customers by implementing mission-critical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions based on platforms such as Salesforce and Google Apps, and developing innovative applications that connect and extend today's leading on-demand platforms. Appirio was founded in 2006, is the fastest growing partner of salesforce.com and Google, and is backed by Sequoia Capital.

Appirio has over 1,500 companies using our own SaaS applications that bring together technologies from Google, Salesforce.com, and Amazon. For example, we recently launched 5 products connecting Salesforce to Google Apps, allowing users to easily synchronize calendars and contacts, collaborate on marketing campaigns, find and embed documents, and create and share customized CRM dashboards.


Candidate Profile

Appirio, Inc. seeks a stellar coder to help build out our SaaS product offerings. If you are excited as we are about cloud computing and looking to build innovative applications on the leading SaaS platforms, Appirio may be the place for you.  We expect everyone in our company to exhibit integrity, intelligence and an impressive breadth of skills. Our work requires Appirio employees to effectively engage at both the business and technical level. We are looking for people with:

  • Enthusiastic, professional, and confident personality; driven by cool technology, customer success with a team player attitude
  • Strong communications skills to fully understand customer requirements and pain points and translate them into a plan of action
  • Technical acumen to help convert plans into real solutions that work

Preferred Skills/Experience


  • A minimum of two years of commercial software development or IT industry experience
  • Proficient with complete web application development stack, both front and back-end
  • Hands-on with Java, Javascript/HTML/CSS/AJAX (Flex a plus), plus one or more of PHP, Python, Ruby
  • Experience with one or more web platform APIs such as Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon
  • BS/CS, IS or equivalent from top tier university
  • Passion for technology and providing valuable, usable products to customers via the SaaS model
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Salary and Benefits


  • Competitive base and incentive compensation package based on experience
  • Comprehensive health plan through BlueCross BlueShield including medical, dental, and vision coverage (full-time employees only)
  • 401K
  • Position will be based in San Mateo, CA

Next Steps


  • Submit your resume and cover letter to Appirio at careers@appirio.com
  • Successful candidates will be interviewed via telephone, then in person
  • Appirio is hiring quickly! Customer demand for Salesforce.com and Google Apps is growing every day. We will more than double the size of our company in 2008.