Software Engineer, Rover
Training
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2+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
Network of pet sitters and dog walkers
Open for applications
Network of pet sitters and dog walkers
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Rover's mission is to improve and simplify life for pet parents and the dogs they love.
Role
Who you are
- Enjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers
- Are eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer
- Are excited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack
- Are passionate about building a deep understanding of how Rover’s systems behave and use that insight to identify risks and opportunities
- Are able to take loose requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward
- Enjoy working across the technical stack, both frontend and backend
- Understand the needs of multiple stakeholders, from end users to internal teams such as tax and accounting
- Get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment and your values align with Rover's Core Values
- Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers
- Minimum 2-3 years experience as a professional software developer
- Proficiency in working with React and a web framework (such as Django, Next.js, Rails, etc)
- Familiarity with CSS
- Familiarity with relational databases and schema design
- Effective communication on design/engineering trade-offs to product managers/designers
- Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish
- Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
- Rigor, attention to detail, curiosity, and always asking Why?
- Bonus: Experience with large-scale consumer-facing websites
- Bonus: Typescript proficiency
- Bonus: Python and Django proficiency or familiarity
What the job involves
- We are a passionate ambitious team rapidly building a new dog training product line within the Rover marketplace
- Analyze and understand production issues, dig into root causes, and make improvements to our systems
Our take
Rover.com connects pet parents with the nation’s largest network of loving and trustworthy pet sitters and dog walkers. Through Rover, pet parents can discover, book, and manage personalised care for their dogs, including pet sitting, dog walking, in-home dog boarding, and doggy day care.
Rover has fundamentally changed the U.S pet services industry, a market which is worth $10+ billion, by improving the way pet owners find and book pet care. Rover’s app is now the most downloaded and best-reviewed dog walking and pet sitting app in North America.
Although they hit a very rough patch during the pandemic, the company's successful bounce-back has led it to a successful IPO and significant growth even after. Pet spending is on the rise and Rover seems perfectly positioned to ride the wave right along.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2018
$125m
LATE VC
Jul 2017
$65m
SERIES F
Total funding: $280.9m
Company benefits
- Dogs and Cats: We’ll provide $1000 to help you adopt or foster a dog or cat. And whenever you need to get away, we’ll help cover your pet’s staycation with a sitter on Rover.
- Treats: Enjoy stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs), including regular chair massages. Every other week, we offer a company lunch for all employees.
- Health: Taking care of yourself and your health comes first. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, and life insurance.
- Compensation: We offer competitive compensation as well as RSUs, 401K match, holiday pay, and pet assistance funds.
- Time Off: Family and life events will always trump business. We offer 4 weeks of paid time off annually, as well as 10 paid holidays.
- Parental Leave: Work shouldn't get in the way of life. That's why we offer maternity leave (10 weeks fully paid and up to 7 weeks of STD at 60%) and paternity leave (10 weeks fully paid)
Company values
- Commitment to our community
- No office politics
- Intentional balance of pace and precision
- Focus on Impact
- Discipline in the way we debate
- Devotion to each other as people
- Relentless pursuit of inspiring outcomes
Company HQ
Belltown, Seattle, WA
Articles
Leadership
Greg Gottesman
(Board Member)Previously worked as an Associate at BCG and as an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He was also a Board Member at Tally, Lumatax, NextStep and Boundless Immigration
Philip Kimmey
(VP of Engineering)Previously worked as an Intern at the Washington School of Medicine and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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