The Role
As a Lead/Senior Software Engineer, you'll enhance sitter experiences at Rover, focusing on building user-friendly tools for pet care management with agile methodologies.
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Who we are:
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We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies.
At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.
This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. This role is permanent/full-time and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou in Barcelona.
About the Sitter Experience Team:
As a member of the Sitter Experience team, you will be part of a dedicated group focused on making Rover the easiest way to find and book quality pet care. Our mission is to enhance the experience of our sitters, who are the sitters offering pet care services on our platform. We are committed to delivering a set of tools that empower sitters to manage their businesses effectively. This includes developing innovative solutions for preference management, calendar and availability, pricing and rates, and more. Our ultimate goal is to help sitters achieve their business objectives while ensuring the integrity of our platform and minimizing the risk of diversion. Join us in building user-friendly, cutting-edge features that will have a direct impact on the success of our sitters and the growth of our community.
We're looking for someone who:
- 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!
- Brings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives.
- Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with others to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
- Is eager to improve their craft as a software engineer and is excited to learn new technologies.
- Is equally eager to share their knowledge and help foster a culture of learning.
- Thrives in a heavily collaborative environment and has great mentorship skills.
Your Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience as a professional software developer
- Experience building web and/or mobile applications
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
- Experience with technologies similar to Rover’s tech stack: React, React Native, Python, and Django
- Experience leading complex projects on collaborative, cross-functional teams
- Solid knowledge and understanding of relational databases and schema design
- Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and general software engineering best practices.
General Skills:
- You are a great team player.
- You are meticulous about design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers.
- You are used to working with different agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/XP).
- You love new challenges and are eager to solve new problems by applying analytical thinking.
- You are business-fluent in written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English).
- You love pets! 🙂
Our Style:
- We are proud to be professional software developers building high-quality, scalable, and supportable solutions.
- We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.
- We are committed to building, fostering, and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity on our teams and in our products.
- We embrace progressive engineering practices, including a continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing, and deployment.
- We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application, and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
- We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.
- Our teams are integrated, with developers, product managers, designers, and data scientists working side-by-side.
- And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!
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, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time
- Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
- Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
- Dog-friendly office
Location:
- This position is located at our Barcelona office.
- Applicants must currently have the right to live and work in Spain....We can help with relocation assistance, though!
Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Top Skills
Django
Python
React
React Native
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The Company
What We Do
At Rover, everyone has ownership of their work and the opportunity to make a true impact. We believe that being diverse and inclusive is key to our success and encourage every employee to share their unique perspective while being their true self.
We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet, and Rover exists to make it easier to experience that love. We’re supporting dog owners and empowering dog sitters to run thriving pet-care businesses in your neighborhoods. The Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe.
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