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At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to improve and simplify life for pet parents and the pets they love.\nWe’re a values driven, agile tech company headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, 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.\nWe 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.\nWant to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.\nThis is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area.\nAdditionally, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis, without the need for current or future employer sponsorship for an employment-based visa status.\nMeet the Recommendations Team:\nThe Recommendations team is a team of 4 Seattle-based engineers and 3 remote contractors 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.\nHere are some examples of the types of projects we work on:\nImproving and maintaining the technology behind the search platform, Elasticsearch\n\nIncreasing match personalization and pet parent confidence through creative information collection and playback initiatives.\n\nProviding engineering support to Data Science as they innovate on the algorithm and ML models that support search\n\nWe are looking for an entry level Software Engineer to join the Recommendations team to help with this mission. You'll partner closely with senior engineers to break down requirements, build features, and see them through to launch -- growing your skills as a professional developer along the way. 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.\nCurious about what it's like to be an Engineer at Rover?\nTake a look at our Engineering Blog to see how our teams approach technical challenges, share what they've learned, and build products at scale. Check out some of the Recommendations team’s recentposts!\nWe're looking for someone who:\nHas empathy for users and enjoys building customer-facing products that improve people's and pet's lives\n\nBrings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives\n\nIs self-driven in solving problems and capitalizing on learning opportunities\n\nIs comfortable navigating ambiguity, and knows when to ask for help versus dig in independently\n\nIs a strong communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nHas an awareness of how to present information in the era of AI tooling\n\nIs excited to learn new things and take on big challenges with the support of Rover's Engineering community\n\nYour Qualifications:\n1-4 years as a professional software developer\n\nGraduation from a formal computer science or engineering program\n\nExperience utilizing AI tools to drive both technical and non-technical workflows\n\nA solid foundation in professional software development practices and system design\n\nA strong communicator who can build consensus around technical approaches, address ambiguity with stakeholders, and effectively present information\n\nA high bar for code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices\n\nAligned with Rover Core Values\n\nPlus:Experience with any of the technologies we support - Python/Django, Elasticsearch, React/React Native\n\nPlus:Experience working in a relevant domain - search or two-sided marketplaces\n\nOur Style:\nWe are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions.\n\nWe are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.\n\nWe are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.\n\nWe embrace progressive engineering practices and the evolving software development industry, including AI Native development, automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.\n\nWe are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.\n\nWe are passionate about data-driven decision-making.\n\nWe are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.\n\nAnd, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!\n\nBenefits of Working at Rover.com:\nCompetitive compensation\n\n401k\n\nFlexible PTO\n\nCompetitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nBring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)\n\nDoggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog\n\nStocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly\n\nRegular team activities performed in person and virtually\n\nCompensation:\nIn the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $99,719-128,513. 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