Staff Software Engineer
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 At Hover, we’re transforming how homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals design, scope, and improve properties using AI, 3D data, and modern software experiences. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help scale our Core UX team, focused on solving foundational customer experience challenges across Hover’s platform. You’ll work on the highest impact problems for our small business customers in an environment with significant ownership and autonomy. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys turning undefined customer problems into intuitive, scalable product experiences. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and design leaders to shape technical direction, lead complex initiatives, and help establish the systems, culture, and engineering practices of a rapidly growing team. You will contribute by Starting with customer obsession. What are customers trying to accomplish? Where are they getting stuck? How can we make complex workflows feel simple and intuitive? You’ll lead through discovery, collaboration, and execution — diving into ambiguous product areas, partnering closely with product and design, and helping shape solutions from early concept through launch and iteration. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work across the stack — primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native — building scalable systems and polished user experiences that power Hover’s core platform and solve meaningful problems for our customers. You’ll also help improve shared systems, mentor engineers, and raise the quality bar across the team. On our team, you may work on: Improving onboarding experiences and helping customers adopt new features more effectively Building collaboration and feature-sharing workflows across teams and users Developing systems for displaying measurements and generating configurable outputs across 3D models and PDFs Scaling customer-facing experiences that improve activation, retention, and product usability
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling customer-facing applications across the stack, with deep expertise in React and backend frameworks like Ruby on Rails.
- Experience with—or strong interest in learning—React Native and contributing to production mobile applications.
- Strong experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems, with solid understanding of reliability, asynchronous processing, and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP preferred).
- Comfort using modern developer tooling, including AI-assisted tools like Cursor or Claude, to improve productivity and engineering velocity.
- Experience working in zero-to-one or highly iterative product environments where customer feedback directly shapes product direction and engineering priorities.
- A proven track record of leading complex, high-impact initiatives from ambiguous problem spaces through technical design, production launch, and ongoing iteration.
- Strong product and engineering judgment — able to balance speed, scalability, quality, and customer impact while making thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
- Experience partnering closely with product, design, and data teams to shape solutions collaboratively, not just execute against predefined requirements.
- A strong ownership mindset with experience mentoring engineers, improving shared systems, and raising the quality bar through technical leadership and collaboration.
- A genuine interest in mentoring others and contributing to a strong, healthy engineering culture.
Nice To Haves
- You’ve built internal tooling, shared systems, or platform capabilities used across multiple teams.
- You’ve worked on products involving 3D data, spatial systems, or geometry processing.
- You’ve supported industries like construction, field services, or other skilled trades.
Responsibilities
- Lead through discovery, collaboration, and execution — diving into ambiguous product areas, partnering closely with product and design, and helping shape solutions from early concept through launch and iteration.
- Work across the stack — primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native — building scalable systems and polished user experiences that power Hover’s core platform and solve meaningful problems for our customers.
- Help improve shared systems, mentor engineers, and raise the quality bar across the team.
- Improving onboarding experiences and helping customers adopt new features more effectively
- Building collaboration and feature-sharing workflows across teams and users
- Developing systems for displaying measurements and generating configurable outputs across 3D models and PDFs
- Scaling customer-facing experiences that improve activation, retention, and product usability
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
- Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
- Generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
- A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
- Recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
- Continued education support for management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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