Who we are
At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.
The Role
We are the Client Platform team. We help other developers at Rover build high quality experiences quickly by focusing on underlying tools and frameworks. We manage and build out core tooling and platforms for frontend development across the web and mobile apps at Rover. We are looking for this role to be primarily focused on web and React Native frontend.
Key investments include: * Continuing to expand our cross-platform Design System. 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. * Making it easier to build with AI. Building workflows, skills, techniques, and approaches for AI-based development and migrations across all teams. * Moving Rover to a React Native-first app + development cycle. We are completing our React Native migration (now serving 90+% mobile views) and fully migrating to a React Native development cycle. * Managing Rover’s adoption of modern tech - notably Next.js, React Query, Expo, and others.
As a senior engineer on our team, you will: * Solve complex technical problems at the fundamentals of our web and React Native clients. * Work to set technical standards across Rover; then evangelize and educate on those standards. * Build cross-platform code that works across both web and React Native. * Help to set a technical roadmap and vision for the team. * Work with other engineers in Barcelona to help mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics. * Represent Client Platform in broad forums and collect feedback that helps inform the team’s roadmap and vision. * Help mentor and coach more junior engineers.
AI/LLM based development
Rover engineers, including this team, are heavy users of Claude for daily engineering practices. Client Platform aims to generally be “AI Native” with work. We are reworking our workflows to adopt AI practices to be central. Principles include: * You are still responsible for your code. AI should be used to expand understanding, not substitute for it. * Text intended for humans should be written by humans. * PR authors are responsible for making their PRs easily reviewable.
Note: This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Barcelona Office in the Poblenou neighborhood two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays.
Benefits of working at Rover
- Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
- Pension plan
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days PTO
- Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)
- Gym membership
- €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet
- Annual €150 wellness reimbursement
- Flexible work hours
- Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
- Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
- Dog-friendly office
- Salary range: €62,722 - €76,027 (dependent on experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities)
Your qualifications
- 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 (React, SSR, Django, Webpack, React Native)
- Experience building re-usable frontend 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
