Lead/Senior Software Engineer

This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. This role is full-time permanent and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou in Barcelona).

Curious about what it's like to engineer at Rover?

Take a look at our Engineering Blog to see how our teams approach technical challenges, share what they've learned, and build products at scale. We hope it gives you a better sense of what it's like to work with us.

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.
• Has great mentorship skills.

Your Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a professional software developer
• Long-term experience with frontend development.
• Strong and proven knowledge of ReactJs or React Native
• Experience with Python or another backend language.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of relational databases and schema design
• Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and general software engineering best practices.
• Experience pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted development, building custom workflows, automating repetitive tasks, or using AI tools beyond basic code completion.

Your Bonus Skills:

• Professional experience with Django and other Python-based frameworks
• Knowledge/Interest in React Native
• Familiar with continuous integration/deployment tools.

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.
• Good level of 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, both 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

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!

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.