Senior Software Engineer, HOVER

• This role is ideal for someone ready to step into more responsibility, drive outcomes with cross-functional partners, and contribute to the technical roadmap of a high-impact team
• You’ll bring strong technical fundamentals, product thinking, and a collaborative mindset
• 5+ years of full stack experience using technologies like Ruby on Rails and React (or similar experience) with a consistent record of contributing to complex, high-impact systems
• Experience with (or strong interest in learning) React Native and working on production mobile applications
• Strong at building and maintaining scalable APIs (REST and GraphQL) and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS or GCP preferred)
• Experience owning features end-to-end—from breaking down vague product ideas into scoped tickets, to shipping production code, to iterating post-launch
• Comfortable in distributed systems environments and familiar with queues, asynchronous processing, and the architectural considerations behind building for reliability
• Proactive in identifying edge cases, making tradeoffs, and balancing engineering quality with delivery speed
• Strong collaborator who works effectively across disciplines—able to align with product, design, and data partners to define the right solution, not just execute on specs
• Known for bringing clarity to ambiguity. You ask good questions, raise risks early, and help drive toward shared understanding
• Committed to team health and mentorship—whether it’s reviewing code, pairing to unblock someone, or offering feedback that helps others level up

Desirable

• At Hover, we’re transforming how professionals in construction design, document, scope, and estimate properties—delivering modern tools for industries long underserved by software
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to work on real-world problems and ship software that helps thousands of pros design, scope jobs, plan projects, and deliver better outcomes for homeowners
• You’ll take ownership of features from ideation to users, help shape how we build, and grow your leadership through influence—not just code
• As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll work across the stack—primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL, with opportunities to contribute to React Native mobile applications—building robust, scalable systems that power Hover’s core product experiences
• You’ll lead scoped projects and features end-to-end, from technical discovery and design through launch and iteration
• Your work will span customer-facing workflows like onboarding, interactive design tools, inspections, and transactional systems, as well as platform capabilities that ensure consistency across the product
• From building polished UIs to modeling backend systems and designing APIs, you’ll help shape how professionals interact with Hover throughout their workflow
• You’ll collaborate closely with product and design partners, improve shared systems, and contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentorship, feedback, and collaboration