Senior Software Engineer, Core UX

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 Senior Software Engineer to join our newly formed Core UX team, focused on building the shared products, platform capabilities, and user experiences that power Hover across Construction, Insurance, and future verticals.

You will contribute by

• Working across the stack, primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL, building scalable services, reusable platform capabilities, and shared product experiences used across Hover's products and business verticals.
• Leading initiatives end-to-end, from technical discovery and architecture design through launch and iteration.
• Improving the reliability, scalability, consistency, and maintainability of shared systems while partnering closely with product, design, data, and engineering teams to create reusable solutions that improve product quality and accelerate development across Hover.

On our team, you may work on:

• Designing and evolving shared services, APIs, data models, and platform capabilities used across multiple Hover verticals.
• Building reusable UI components, workflows, and product foundations that create consistent experiences across the platform.
• Developing systems for displaying measurements and generating configurable outputs across 3D models and PDFs.
• Improving reliability, scalability, and performance across distributed systems and asynchronous workflows.
• Reducing duplicated effort and technical debt through shared solutions used by multiple product teams.
• Driving improvements in activation, retention, product quality, and customer experience through more cohesive platform experiences.

Your background includes

• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with meaningful backend depth, building and shipping complex, high-impact systems.
• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (or similar server-side frameworks) and React.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable REST and GraphQL APIs and well-structured data models.
• Experience building shared or reusable systems such as platform services, internal tooling, component libraries, design systems, or infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including queues, asynchronous processing, reliability, scalability, and availability tradeoffs.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in AWS or GCP (GCP preferred).
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural considerations.
• Comfort using LLM-powered developer tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude) to improve productivity, code quality, and iteration speed.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or supporting platform engineering initiatives, shared services, internal tooling, design systems, or component libraries used across multiple teams.
• Experience with React Native or production mobile applications.
• Experience working with 3D data, geometry processing, spatial models, mapping systems, or visualization technologies—even through side projects or personal interests.
• Experience in construction technology, insurance technology, property technology, or other multi-product SaaS environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers formally or informally and helping elevate engineering quality across a team.

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 - $204,000 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.

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Senior Software Engineer, Core UX – San Francisco/New York – Engineering