Senior Software Engineer, Client Platform

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.
Meet the TeamWe are the Client Platform team. We help teams at Rover build high quality experiences fast by focusing on the underlying tools and frameworks. 
As a Platform team, we build out the fundamental tech that powers the internals of Rover.com and the mobile apps. We empower developers to be able to focus more on building great experiences than fighting their tech. 

Some of our key investments

• Continuing to expand our cross-platform Design Library. We maintain the shared library of re-usable components that make it easy to build cross-platform apps quickly. 
• Moving the website to be served from Next.js. We are migrating the fundamental tech used to serve Rover.com to a community supported SSR platform. 
• Moving Rover to a React Native-first app + development cycle. Our mobile apps are a mix of native and RxN code, and we’d like to be all-in on RxN. 
• Improving the efficiency of working with the UX team. We are building out new processes to reduce design cycle times on teams. 
• Managing Rover’s adoption of modern tech - especially React, React Native, Next.js, React Testing Library, and others. 

Technologies

• Rover.com is primarily built in React, served either from a Node SSR or Django backend, and compiled with Webpack. Our client API is written in Python in Django, which serves over 2 billion requests a month. Our mobile apps are a majority React Native, though with many parts in native Swift and Kotlin. 


• Our development environment centers around ready-to-use Codespaces. At Rover, we deploy to the web 10-20 times a day, with a median review -> merge time for PRs of 3 hours. Engineers average over 4 PRs/person/sprint. So all that to say - we prioritize shipping small, incremental work often and quickly! 

This Role

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We are looking for someone with a primarily web development background who is excited to work both on Web React and React Native. As a senior engineer on our team, you will:
• Solve complex technical problems at the fundamentals of our web and React Native clients.
• Work to set technical standards across Rover, and then evangelize and educate on those standards. 
• Build hybrid-first code that works across both web and React Native.
• Help to set technical roadmap and vision for the team. We don’t have a partner Product Manager, and so “set our own destiny” in a sense.
• Work with other engineers in Barcelona to help mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics. 
• Help mentor and coach more junior engineers.

We have other members of the team who are native-app experts and primarily handle needs on that side. You will complement them with a web and React Native focus. 
This role is based in our office in Barcelona and will work virtually alongside other team members based in Seattle, WA in the US. 

What you’ll bring

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We are looking for a senior level engineer, with a rich background of solving complex web and react native issues. You may not have all of these, but some of the things you will bring are:
• 7+ years as a professional software developer
• Expertise with Javascript frameworks (especially React) and component-driven design.
• Experience in React Native development. 
• Expertise in multiple parts of our tech stack (see above).
• Experience building re-usable frontend design libraries. 
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