Senior Product Engineer, Rover

• 7+ years of experience as a professional software engineer, with a strong track record of delivering backend systems
• Technical leadership: you've mentored engineers, driven architectural decisions, led technical design reviews, or shaped team engineering practices, formally or informally
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python and Django. If your background is in another major backend language (Java, Go, C#, Kotlin), that's absolutely welcome, what matters most is engineering depth, and we'll support you in ramping up on our stack
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (schema design, query optimization, migrations)
• Observability mindset: experience instrumenting services with structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. You care about understanding system behavior in production, not just at deploy time
• Strong testing discipline: you champion automated testing (unit, integration, contract) and treat it as a core part of shipping, not an afterthought
• AI-augmented engineering: you actively use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) in your daily work, for code generation, debugging, refactoring, code review, and exploring unfamiliar codebases. You understand how to write effective prompts, validate AI output critically, and integrate these tools into a professional workflow
• Comfortable working across the stack: while your strength is backend, you can navigate a React/TypeScript frontend to unblock yourself or collaborate effectively with frontend engineers
• A note on qualifications: we know great candidates don’t always match every requirement. If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all the listed qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. You might bring strengths or perspectives we haven’t considered—and we’d love to learn more
• You are a collaborative team player who lifts others through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and pairing
• You bring analytical thinking to new problems and are energized by ambiguity
• You are meticulous about system design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers
• You are comfortable working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
• Good level of written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English)
• You love pets! :)

Desirable

• You'll be joining seven talented and supportive full-stack engineers who care deeply about clean code, thoughtful collaboration, and delivering high-quality user experiences
• We take our work seriously, but we also love to have fun together, whether it's team lunches, offsites, or casual coffee chats on the terrace at the office
• If you're looking to learn from a strong team, make an impact, and enjoy the ride along the way, we'd love to hear from you
• Has a true passion for Rover's mission and values and is highly motivated by the responsibility to foster a safe environment for our community
• Has empathy for users and enjoys building customer-facing products that improve people's and pets' lives
• Takes ownership of problems end-to-end: from understanding the business need, to designing the solution, shipping it, and monitoring it in production
• Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward
• Brings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives
• Cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and engineering craftsmanship; writing code that is clear, well-tested, and built to last
• Is excited about using AI tools to accelerate their workflow, improve code quality, and ship faster. You see AI as a core part of modern software engineering, not a novelty
• Is equally eager to share their knowledge and help foster a culture of learning through mentoring, code reviews, and technical leadership