Senior Software Engineer, HOVER

• 7+ years of experience building modern frontend applications with JavaScript/TypeScript and React (React Native a plus)
• Deep expertise in React architecture, including component design, state management, performance, and accessibility
• A high bar for UX quality and consistency, with experience contributing to or evolving a centralized design system/component library
• Experience building accessible, WCAG-compliant applications
• Strong experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs, including close collaboration on API design
• Proficiency with modern frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, NPM, and related ecosystems
• Demonstrated senior-level ownership: you turn ambiguous problems into clear plans and shipped outcomes with sound technical and product judgment
• Comfort collaborating across the stack, partnering effectively with backend and platform engineers
• Strong product instincts and the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• A customer-first mindset, empathy for users, and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Bonus points

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll work on design features to help homeowners and construction pros create the perfect home for home renovations
• You’ll collaborate across the stack (frontend, APIs, backend systems) to ship customer-facing experiences and ship to customers, from the systems that power AI-driven design to the polished workflows that make editing and sharing designs feel effortless
• You’ll own complex features end to end, from discovery and planning through launch and iteration, while improving the platform and UI foundations that keep our product consistent, fast, and maintainable
• Most weeks you’ll be writing RFCs or tech specs, then executing through a mix of solo work and pair programming across the stack to ship innovative product experiences that delight users
• You’ll partner closely with Product Managers and Designers, using customer feedback to continuously improve the user experience
• Along the way, you’ll collaborate with engineers to design and evolve systems, refactor safely with solid test coverage, and deploy to production frequently
• You’ll also raise the team’s bar through high-signal PR reviews, mentoring, and pairing, and you’ll champion UX consistency and accessibility by driving design system adoption and closing the highest-impact gaps
• Contributing to and advocating for our design system
• Prompt and material management that powers image generation and specific material application (siding, roofing, windows, and more), using Ruby on Rails and ComfyUI
• 2D and 3D model experiences for applying materials and making detailed edits to a home, using React and Ruby on Rails
• Engagement features like saving, organizing, and sharing designs
• Embedded design capabilities that bring Hover’s experiences onto manufacturer and construction pro sites