Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, Rover
+ Long-term incentive plan (company performance-based cash payout)
2+ days a week in office
Network of pet sitters and dog walkers
Job no longer available
Network of pet sitters and dog walkers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Long-term incentive plan (company performance-based cash payout)
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow more people to experience the unconditional love of a pet.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with a primarily web development background who is excited to work both on Web React and React Native
- We are looking for a senior level engineer, with a rich background of solving complex web and react native issues
- 7+ years as a professional software developer
- Expertise with Javascript frameworks (especially React) and component-driven design
- Experience in React Native development
- Expertise in multiple parts of our tech stack (see above)
- Experience building re-usable frontend design libraries
- Experience handling large-scale technology upgrades across a broad range of a codebase
- An excitement for defining technical standards that make sense for the organization
- Experience coaching more junior developers
- Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering standard methodologies
- A focus on observability, a propensity to ship code with effective monitoring and logging
- Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish
- You’re aligned with Rover Core Values
What the job involves
- We are the Client Platform team. We help teams at Rover build high quality experiences fast by focusing on the underlying tools and frameworks
- As a Platform team, we build out the fundamental tech that powers the internals of Rover.com and the mobile apps
- Continuing to expand our cross-platform Design Library. We maintain the shared library of re-usable components that make it easy to build cross-platform apps quickly
- Moving the website to be served from Next.js. We are migrating the fundamental tech used to serve Rover.com to a community supported SSR platform
- Moving Rover to a React Native-first app + development cycle. Our mobile apps are a mix of native and RxN code, and we’d like to be all-in on RxN
- Improving the efficiency of working with the UX team. We are building out new processes to reduce design cycle times on teams
- Managing Rover’s adoption of modern tech - especially React, React Native, Next.js, React Testing Library, and others
- Solve complex technical problems at the fundamentals of our web and React Native clients
- Work to set technical standards across Rover, and then evangelize and educate on those standards
- Build hybrid-first code that works across both web and React Native
- Help to set technical roadmap and vision for the team. We don’t have a partner Product Manager, and so “set our own destiny” in a sense
- Work with other engineers in Barcelona to help mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics
- Help mentor and coach more junior engineers
- We have other members of the team who are native-app experts and primarily handle needs on that side. You will complement them with a web and React Native focus
Our take
Rover.com connects pet parents with the nation’s largest network of loving and trustworthy pet sitters and dog walkers. Through Rover, pet parents can discover, book, and manage personalized care for their dogs, including pet sitting, dog walking, in-home dog boarding, and doggy day care.
Rover has fundamentally changed the U.S pet services industry, a market which is worth $10+ billion, by improving the way pet owners find and book pet care. Rover’s app is now the most downloaded and best-reviewed dog walking and pet sitting app in North America.
Although things slowed down for the company during the pandemic, the successful bounce-back has led it to an IPO and significant growth, notably in European markets. Pet spending is on the rise too, and Rover seems well positioned to ride that wave - an outlook reinforced by its $2.3 billion acquisition by Blackstone, which shows both the platform's resilience and the long-term attractiveness of its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2018
$125m
LATE VC
Jul 2017
$65m
SERIES F
Total funding: $280.9m
Company benefits
- Treats: Enjoy stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs). We offer free lunches twice a month and have regular team activities, including happy hours, and more.
- Hybrid Working: We believe that the best work is done in a flexible environment.
- Compensation and Benefits: We offer competitive compensation, health benefits and a pension plan with company match. We also offer generous perks like meal vouchers and wellness reimbursement. 🇪🇺
- Time Off: Family and life events will always trump business. We offer 25 days of PTO. 🇪🇺
- Dogs and Cats: We'll provide help to adopt or foster a pet and help cover your pet's staycation with a sitter on Rover. 🇪🇺
Company values
- Commitment to our community
- No office politics
- Intentional balance of pace and precision
- Focus on Impact
- Discipline in the way we debate
- Devotion to each other as people
- Relentless pursuit of inspiring outcomes
Company HQ
Seattle
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Leadership
Brent Turner
(Chief Executive Officer)Megan Teepe
(Chief Growth Officer)Eddie Torpoco
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