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.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving complex systems problems, and wants to have broad impact across an entire product ecosystem. You’ll work on foundational experiences and infrastructure that every user touches, helping create greater consistency, quality, and reuse across Hover’s platform while accelerating product velocity for teams throughout the company.

You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, design, and data leaders to shape technical direction, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and help establish the architecture, engineering practices, and culture of a rapidly growing team. As one of the early members of Core UX, you'll have a unique opportunity to influence how Hover builds shared systems and experiences for years to come.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core UX team

• Work 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.
• Lead initiatives end-to-end, from technical discovery and architecture design through launch and iteration.
• Focus on 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.

Your background

• 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.

How You Work

• Thrive in ambiguity and bring clarity to complex, cross-functional problems by asking thoughtful questions, identifying risks early, and driving alignment.
• Own initiatives end-to-end, from defining solutions and shaping architecture through implementation, launch, and post-launch iteration.
• Think in systems, proactively identifying opportunities to improve scalability, reliability, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
• Balance engineering excellence with pragmatism, making thoughtful tradeoffs that deliver value today while positioning systems for future growth.
• Collaborate effectively across product, design, data, and engineering teams, building consensus and influencing outcomes without relying on formal authority.
• Communicate clearly, give thoughtful feedback, and actively contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentorship and collaboration.
• Enjoy working on highly visible, high-leverage problems whose impact extends across multiple teams, products, and customer experiences.

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.