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.
We are proud to be recognized as 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. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.
Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.
Some of Our Key Investments:
- Manage core database operations, including user access, instance scaling, and performance tuning
- Design and test backup strategies to ensure we can restore data quickly with almost no downtime
- Lead major and minor database upgrades
- Manage compliance requirements
- Identify and lead initiatives to improve stability, scalability and performance of Rover’s web app
- Collaborate with developers on schema migrations and query tuning
- Use Datadog/Cloudwatch to monitor system health and set up alerting
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis and resolution
- Build and maintain self-service tools, such as our Automated Data Model Change approval tooling.
- Design Terraform for management of RDS infrastructure and deployment
- Develop automation scripts using Python to assist in Django migration issues and model tuning
Your Qualifications and Skillset:
- Computer Science or equivalent background
- 3+ years as a Fullstack or Backend Engineer (preferably in Django/Python)
- Solid knowledge and understanding of databases, schema design and database fundamentals (MySQL/PostgreSQL/AWS RDS)
- Experience using and managing AWS products, with a focus on operating, maintaining, and diagnosing issues within production environments
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (eg: Terraform or CDK)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Datadog/Cloudwatch or ELK stack
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:
- 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
Compensation:
- In the greater Barcelona area the first-year salary range is €62,722 - €76,027. 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.
Skills Required
- Computer Science degree or equivalent background
- 3+ years as a Fullstack or Backend Engineer
- Experience with Django and Python
- Solid knowledge of databases, schema design and database fundamentals (MySQL/PostgreSQL/AWS RDS)
- Experience operating and diagnosing production AWS environments
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, Sentry, Splunk)
- Experience building automation and scripting (Python) for migrations and tooling
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 support
- Ability to design and test backup/restore strategies and lead database upgrades
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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