Senior Software Engineer, Recommendations

Who we are: 

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

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 is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office one day per week on Thursdays. 

Meet the Recommendations Team

The Recommendations team is responsible for matching pet parents with the best care providers for their respective needs. We work closely with an adjacent team of analysts, designers, and data scientists to create, test, and release user-impacting marketplace features. 

Here are some examples of the types of projects we work on:

- Better matching by collecting structured information from both our pet parents and providers (think: accurate availability details and distance optimizations)

- Improving and maintaining the technology behind search

- Providing engineering support to Data Science as they innovate on the algorithm and ML/AI models that support search

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Recommendations team to help with this mission. From breaking down requirements and writing implementation plans, to building the features and launching them -- you will be a key player in our efforts to delight our customers. Join us if you're interested in both backend and frontend development, want to see the impact of your work on scaling our company, and are excited about the challenges of a marketplace business.

We're looking for someone who:

• Have empathy for users and enjoy building customer-facing products that improve people's and pet's lives!
• Bring their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives
• Is able to refine loose requirements, collaborate cross-functionally 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
• Enjoys being part of a great community of pet lovers

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years as a professional software developer
• Excited to learn new things and take on big challenges with the support of Rover’s Engineering community
• Comfort working in different parts of the stack
• Familiarity with relational databases and schema design
• Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
• Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish
• A track record of successfully launching large scale projects starting from ambiguous problems
• Aligned with Rover Core Values
• Plus: Experience with any of the technologies we support - Python/Django, Elasticsearch, React/React Native
• Plus: Experience working in a relevant domain - search or two-sided marketplaces

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 both on our teams and in our products.
• We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.
• 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.
• We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.
• And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits of Working at Rover.com

• Competitive compensation
• 401k
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly 
• Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually

Compensation:

• In the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $166,000 - $182,000. Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.
• The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

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.

We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.