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 Search Experience team:
The Search Experience team is focused on making it easy for pet parents to find care for their pets that makes pet owners want to keep using the Rover platform. We are focused on ensuring we have the right data from our providers and present the right information to owners so that they can make informed booking decisions and develop lasting relationships with their sitters.
Some of the team initiatives include:
- Collect the right information at the right time from owners. Our search algorithm is only as good as the data we collect. Balancing that need to collect information about the owner’s needs vs their desire to just get to the results is a tricky balance to strike and one we plan to dive into
Guide searchers to contact the best matches. Our current search experience does not differentiate between sitters adequately. It’s unclear to owners why they should choose a particular provider and how well that provider will meet their needs. Let alone how likely they are to accept the booking given their past history. We aim to change that by exposing more information on why a provider might or might not be a good fit, ensuring that the sitters are available, and ensuring the best matches are surfaced to the owner to make the choice clearer.
We’re looking for engineers who:
- We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to accelerate our team’s initiatives and improve Rover’s customer experience.
- Our team owns a wide swath of the Rover experience opportunities to work both frontend and backend exist on the team.
- Rover’s technical stack is Python/Django, React, and React Native, but experience in any similar web application framework is valuable.
- Ideal candidates will have full stack web application development experience with similar tools and should be comfortable tackling projects from end to end.
Requirements:
- Enjoy building customer-facing products that improve people’s and pet’s lives!
- Enjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers.
- Are passionate about API design, observability, and building platforms
- Are eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer and share that experience with their team members
- Are excited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.
- Are able to be a partner with our product stakeholder to refine requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
- Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers.
Your Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience as a professional software developer.
- Comfort working across the entire system from frontend to backend.
- Experience with Python or another backend language.
- Familiarity with relational databases and schema design.
- Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- Experience with large distributed systems with an emphasis on observability, instrumentation, monitoring.
- Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish.
- You get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment and your values align with Rover’s Core Values.
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 $118,476- $152,686. Additionally, Rover offers 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 committedto 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
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