Senior Software Engineer

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 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.

You will contribute by

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.

Your background includes

• 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.

Bonus Points:  

• 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

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

Hybrid roles at Hover

Hover has Hubs in San Francisco and New York City, where we expect that all employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices will come into their local Hover office at least three times a week to build rapport and foster organic connection. At this time, Hover is not considering fully remote roles.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000 - $239,000 annually. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all applicable US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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