Staff Software Engineer

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:

• 10+ 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
• Solid knowledge and understanding of relational databases and schema design
• Experience leading highly complex projects that span multiple teams and led to significant business impact
• Experience assessing technical complexity and estimating the scope of large initiatives
• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to inform product strategy
• Track record of successful mentorship
• 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:

• Competitive compensation
• Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
• Permanent contract
• Pension Plan
• Meal tickets through Cobee
• Generous PTO Allowance
• Private health insurance
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Monetary help for adopting a dog plus yearly credit to use on our platform 
• 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, including happy hours, game nights, and more

Locations:

• 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!