Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Backend

Hover • San Francisco, CA

8h • $165,000 - $239,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Hover helps people design, improve, and protect the properties they love. With proprietary AI built on over a decade of real property data, Hover answers age-old questions like “What will it look like?” and “What will it cost?” Homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals rely on Hover to get fully measured, accurate, and interactive 3D models of any property — all from a smartphone scan in minutes.
At Hover, we’re driven by curiosity, purpose, and a shared commitment to serving our customers, communities, and each other. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and are proud to cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture that inspires growth, accountability, and excellence. Backed by leading investors like Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders including Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide — we’re redefining how people understand and interact with their spaces.
Why Hover wants you
Hover is looking for a full-stack engineer who takes ownership, moves with initiative, and cares deeply about building reliable, high-quality systems that power real-world impact.
Our Mobile team is a close-knit group of engineers across Rails, iOS, React Native, and Android who are deeply invested in craft, reliability, and customer experience. We own and evolve the mobile platform that sits at the core of Hover’s business — the systems that turn real-world property data into precise 3D models and measurements relied on by contractors and insurers every day. We collaborate closely across engineering, product, and design to continuously improve core customer journeys while scaling our platform with confidence.
In this role, you’ll work across the stack — designing scalable backend APIs, improving data flows, and refining intuitive frontend experiences — helping us build products that are performant, resilient, and thoughtfully crafted. If you’re energized by solving complex problems across systems and want your work to have visible, measurable impact, this is a place where you’ll do some of your best work.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend expertise and proficiency in Ruby on Rails
• Experience designing, building, and operating production systems with a focus on reliability and performance
• Experience designing and building APIs, ideally for mobile or distributed consumers
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with testing across the stack (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
• Comfort contributing across modern frontend frameworks (React or similar) and collaborating across the full stack when needed
• Experience delivering features end-to-end — from technical design through implementation and iteration
• Comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Infrastructure partners
• Ability to prioritize effectively and focus on high-impact work in fast-moving environments
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with mobile applications (React Native, Swift, or Kotlin)
• Experience collaborating with external partners or cross-functional stakeholders on shared initiatives

Responsibilities

• You’ll design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our mobile platform, while continuously improving reliability, performance, and observability across the stack.
• You’ll write clear technical specifications, contribute to architecture decisions, and thoughtfully evolve systems with testing and long-term maintainability in mind.
• You’ll debug complex challenges that span backend and mobile layers, collaborate through pairing and design discussions, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and QA to ship high-impact features grounded in real user feedback.
• Through this work, you’ll strengthen the foundation of Hover’s mobile experience and help us scale with confidence.

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed