Senior Product Engineer

Software Engineer

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we're a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We're investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

This role is approved for sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. It is full-time permanent and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).

We're the team behind one of the most critical moments in the Rover journey: making a booking. Our mission is to make it fast, easy, and intuitive for pet parents to connect with the right sitter.

We're a cross-functional team based in Barcelona, working closely across engineering, product, design, and data science. We make decisions together, support each other, and share ownership of our work. Our primary metric is conversion, and because it sits at the heart of Rover's business, our work has a direct, visible impact across the platform.

You'll be joining seven talented and supportive full-stack engineers who care deeply about clean code, thoughtful collaboration, and delivering high-quality user experiences. We take our work seriously, but we also love to have fun together, whether it's team lunches, offsites, or casual coffee chats on the terrace at the office.

If you're looking to learn from a strong team, make an impact, and enjoy the ride along the way, we'd love to hear from you.

• Has a true passion for Rover's mission and values and is highly motivated by the responsibility to foster a safe environment for our community.
• Has empathy for users and enjoys building customer-facing products that improve people's and pets' lives.
• Takes ownership of problems end-to-end: from understanding the business need, to designing the solution, shipping it, and monitoring it in production.
• Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
• Brings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives.
• Cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and engineering craftsmanship; writing code that is clear, well-tested, and built to last.
• Is excited about using AI tools to accelerate their workflow, improve code quality, and ship faster. You see AI as a core part of modern software engineering, not a novelty.
• Is equally eager to share their knowledge and help foster a culture of learning through mentoring, code reviews, and technical leadership.

A note on qualifications: we know great candidates don't always match every requirement. If you're excited about the role but don't meet all the listed qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. You might bring strengths or perspectives we haven't considered—and we'd love to learn more.

• Experience with React or React Native, enough to contribute to frontend work when the team needs it.
• Experience with distributed systems patterns: async task queues (Celery, RabbitMQ or similar), caching layers (Memcached, Redis), and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with search infrastructure (Elasticsearch or similar).
• Experience with REST API design at scale (Django REST Framework or equivalent).
• Exposure to continuous deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted development, building custom workflows, automating repetitive tasks, or using AI tools beyond basic code completion.

• You are a collaborative team player who lifts others through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and pairing.
• You bring analytical thinking to new problems and are energized by ambiguity.
• You are meticulous about system design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers.
• You are comfortable working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
• Good level of written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English).
• You love pets! :)

• We are proud to be professional software developers building high-quality, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.
• We are committed to…