Senior Software Engineer

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.

At Hover, we’re transforming how professionals in construction design, document, scope, and estimate properties—delivering modern tools for industries long underserved by software. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to work on real‑world problems and ship software that helps thousands of pros design, scope jobs, plan projects, and deliver better outcomes for homeowners.

You’ll bring strong technical fundamentals, product thinking, and a collaborative mindset. You’ll take ownership of features from ideation to users, help shape how we build, and grow your leadership through influence—not just code. This role is ideal for someone ready to step into more responsibility, drive outcomes with cross‑functional partners, and contribute to the technical roadmap of a high‑impact team.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll work across the stack—primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and Graph

QL, with opportunities to contribute to React Native mobile applications—building robust, scalable systems that power Hover’s core product experiences.

You’ll lead scoped projects and features end‑to‑end, from technical discovery and design through launch and iteration. Your work will span customer‑facing workflows like onboarding, interactive design tools, inspections, and transactional systems, as well as platform capabilities that ensure consistency across the product.

From building polished UIs to modeling backend systems and designing APIs, you’ll help shape how professionals interact with Hover throughout their workflow. You’ll collaborate closely with product and design partners, improve shared systems, and contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentorship, feedback, and collaboration.

• 5+ years of full stack experience using technologies like Ruby on Rails and React (or similar experience) with a consistent record of contributing to complex, high‑impact systems.
• Experience with (or strong interest in learning) React Native and working on production mobile applications
• Strong at building and maintaining scalable APIs (REST and Graph
  
  QL) and deploying cloud‑native applications (AWS or GCP preferred).
• Experience owning features end‑to‑end—from breaking down vague product ideas into scoped tickets, to shipping production code, to iterating post‑launch.
• Comfortable in distributed systems environments and familiar with queues, asynchronous processing, and the architectural considerations behind building for reliability.
• Proactive in identifying edge cases, making tradeoffs, and balancing engineering quality with delivery speed.
• Strong collaborator who works effectively across disciplines—able to align with product, design, and data partners to define the right solution, not just execute on specs.
• Known for bringing clarity to ambiguity. You ask good questions, raise risks early, and help drive toward shared understanding.
• Committed to team health and mentorship—whether it’s reviewing code, pairing to unblock someone, or offering feedback that helps others level up.

Bonus Points:

• You’ve shipped intuitive, high‑quality UX with strong attention to fit and finish
• You’ve worked on a zero‑to‑one product that…