Senior Software Engineer

Hover • San Francisco, CA

17d • $165,000 - $239,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Hover, we’re transforming how professionals in construction design, document, scope, and estimate properties—delivering modern tools for industries long underserved by software. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to work on real-world problems and ship software that helps thousands of pros design, scope jobs, plan projects, and deliver better outcomes for homeowners.
You’ll bring strong technical fundamentals, product thinking, and a collaborative mindset. You’ll take ownership of features from ideation to users, help shape how we build, and grow your leadership through influence—not just code. This role is ideal for someone ready to step into more responsibility, drive outcomes with cross-functional partners, and contribute to the technical roadmap of a high-impact team.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll work across the stack—primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL, with opportunities to contribute to React Native mobile applications—building robust, scalable systems that power Hover’s core product experiences.
You’ll lead scoped projects and features end-to-end, from technical discovery and design through launch and iteration. Your work will span customer-facing workflows like onboarding, interactive design tools, inspections, and transactional systems, as well as platform capabilities that ensure consistency across the product.
From building polished UIs to modeling backend systems and designing APIs, you’ll help shape how professionals interact with Hover throughout their workflow. You’ll collaborate closely with product and design partners, improve shared systems, and contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentorship, feedback, and collaboration.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full stack experience using technologies like Ruby on Rails and React (or similar experience) with a consistent record of contributing to complex, high-impact systems.
• Experience with (or strong interest in learning) React Native and working on production mobile applications
• Strong at building and maintaining scalable APIs (REST and GraphQL) and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS or GCP preferred).
• Experience owning features end-to-end—from breaking down vague product ideas into scoped tickets, to shipping production code, to iterating post-launch.
• Comfortable in distributed systems environments and familiar with queues, asynchronous processing, and the architectural considerations behind building for reliability.
• Proactive in identifying edge cases, making tradeoffs, and balancing engineering quality with delivery speed.
• Strong collaborator who works effectively across disciplines—able to align with product, design, and data partners to define the right solution, not just execute on specs.
• Known for bringing clarity to ambiguity. You ask good questions, raise risks early, and help drive toward shared understanding.
• Committed to team health and mentorship—whether it’s reviewing code, pairing to unblock someone, or offering feedback that helps others level up.

Nice To Haves

• You’ve shipped intuitive, high-quality UX with strong attention to fit and finish
• You’ve worked on a zero-to-one product that went live and evolved with real customer feedback
• Comfort with modern developer tools, including LLM-powered tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude), to improve productivity, code quality, and iteration speed
• You’ve built for or supported construction, or other skilled trades use cases
• You’ve worked with 3D data, geometry processing, or spatial models—even in a hobby project
• You’ve improved internal tooling, shared components, or platform libraries used across multiple teams
• You’ve mentored others formally or informally, and enjoyed it
• You’ve spoken at meetups, contributed to open source, or otherwise shared your technical knowledge publicly

Responsibilities

• Lead scoped projects and features end-to-end, from technical discovery and design through launch and iteration.
• Build polished UIs to modeling backend systems and designing APIs
• Collaborate closely with product and design partners, improve shared systems, and contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentorship, feedback, and collaboration.

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