Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Backend

at Hover

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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.

You will contribute by

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.

Your background includes

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

Bonus Points:

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

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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