Who we are
At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company 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.
The Role
We are the Client Platform team. We help other developers at Rover build high quality experiences quickly by focusing on underlying tools and frameworks. We manage and build out core tooling and platforms for frontend development across the web and mobile apps at Rover. We are looking for this role to be primarily focused on web and React Native frontend.
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; then evangelize and educate on those standards. * Build cross-platform code that works across both web and React Native. * Help to set a technical roadmap and vision for the team. * Work with other engineers in Barcelona to help mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics. * Represent Client Platform in broad forums and collect feedback that helps inform the team’s roadmap and vision. * Help mentor and coach more junior engineers.
AI/LLM based development
Rover engineers, including this team, are heavy users of Claude for daily engineering practices. Client Platform aims to generally be “AI Native” with work. We are reworking our workflows to adopt AI practices to be central. This means things such as: using workflows to handle large migrations, iterating on Claude skills, developing codebase context. It also impacts how we accomplish our work, from reorganizing how we go about our days to restructuring PR descriptions.
Principles: * You are still responsible for your code. AI should be used to expand understanding, not substitute for it. “Claude did it” is not an excuse. * Text intended for humans should be written by humans. Slack messages, PR descriptions, design docs, etc should all still be written by you. * PR authors are responsible for making their PRs easily reviewable. The more complex/large a PR, the more the author needs to do for others.
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
- Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
- Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
- Dog-friendly office
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.
Your qualifications
- 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 (React, SSR, Django, Webpack).
- Experience building re-usable frontend libraries.
- Experience handling large-scale technology upgrades across a broad range of a codebase.
- An excitement for defining technical standards that make sense for the organization.
- Experience coaching more junior developers.
- Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering standard methodologies.
- A focus on observability, a propensity to ship code with effective monitoring and logging.
- Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish.
- You’re aligned with Rover Core Values.
- This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Barcelona Office in the Poblenou neighborhood two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in Barcelona or willing to relocate.
