Senior Software Engineer, HOVER

• 5–8+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend expertise and proficiency in Ruby on Rails
• Experience designing, building, and operating production systems with a focus on reliability and performance
• Experience designing and building APIs, ideally for mobile or distributed consumers
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with testing across the stack (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
• Comfort contributing across modern frontend frameworks (React or similar) and collaborating across the full stack when needed
• Experience delivering features end-to-end — from technical design through implementation and iteration
• Comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Infrastructure partners
• Ability to prioritize effectively and focus on high-impact work in fast-moving environments
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

• Hover is looking for a full-stack engineer who takes ownership, moves with initiative, and cares deeply about building reliable, high-quality systems that power real-world impact
• Our Mobile team is a close-knit group of engineers across Rails, iOS, React Native, and Android who are deeply invested in craft, reliability, and customer experience
• We own and evolve the mobile platform that sits at the core of Hover’s business — the systems that turn real-world property data into precise 3D models and measurements relied on by contractors and insurers every day
• We collaborate closely across engineering, product, and design to continuously improve core customer journeys while scaling our platform with confidence
• In this role, you’ll work across the stack — designing scalable backend APIs, improving data flows, and refining intuitive frontend experiences — helping us build products that are performant, resilient, and thoughtfully crafted
• If you’re energized by solving complex problems across systems and want your work to have visible, measurable impact, this is a place where you’ll do some of your best work
• You’ll design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our mobile platform, while continuously improving reliability, performance, and observability across the stack
• You’ll write clear technical specifications, contribute to architecture decisions, and thoughtfully evolve systems with testing and long-term maintainability in mind
• You’ll debug complex challenges that span backend and mobile layers, collaborate through pairing and design discussions, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and QA to ship high-impact features grounded in real user feedback
• Through this work, you’ll strengthen the foundation of Hover’s mobile experience and help us scale with confidence