Senior Software Engineer, Inspections

Hover 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.

Why Hover wants you

The Inspections team is responsible for one of Hover's fastest-growing products and plays a critical role in helping some of the largest insurers in the world make better decisions about properties. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can help us scale that product while shaping its future architecture. You'll begin by building customer-facing features that improve the inspection experience and quickly grow into helping lead a strategic evolution of the platform as we transition portions of our React Native application into native SDK capabilities.

This is a role for someone who enjoys balancing product thinking with technical depth. You'll work closely with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering partners to solve real customer problems, improve platform reliability, and influence decisions that will impact both Hover's applications and future external SDK consumers. If you're excited about product ownership, working with ambiguity, and the opportunity to help define the next generation of a rapidly growing product, we'd love to meet you.

You will contribute by

Building and scaling customer-facing experiences that help contractors, adjusters, and insurance professionals make faster, more informed decisions. You'll partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape solutions from initial concept through launch, ensuring we're solving meaningful customer problems while delivering intuitive, high-quality experiences.

You'll play a key role in the evolution of Hover Inspections, leading initiatives that improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience while helping define the future architecture of the product. As we continue investing in our mobile platform and SDK strategy, you'll evaluate technical tradeoffs, influence architectural decisions, and help establish a foundation that supports long-term growth.

Beyond delivering features, you'll contribute to engineering excellence across the team through thoughtful system design, strong testing practices, code reviews, and operational improvements. You'll help raise the bar for quality while enabling the team to move quickly and confidently in service of our customers.

Most importantly, you'll operate with a high degree of ownership. Taking projects from idea to implementation, launch, and ongoing support while helping build products that are reliable, scalable, and valuable in the real-world environments where our customers work every day.

Your background includes

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software at scale
• Experience developing and maintaining mobile applications using React Native, Swift, Kotlin, or similar technologies
• Full-stack development experience, including expertise in either backend development (Ruby on Rails or similar) or frontend/mobile development (React or React Native)
• A track record of owning customer-facing features from technical design through launch and ongoing support
• Experience leading complex projects and making sound architectural and technical tradeoff decisions
• Strong product instincts and a demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into effective technical solutions
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering partners
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across a team

Bonus points:

• Experience building mobile-first products used by customers in real-world environments
• Experience building SDKs, platform capabilities, or reusable developer tooling
• Experience migrating applications between frameworks or leading architectural modernization efforts
• Experience building offline-first mobile experiences
• Experience with GraphQL and API design, including performance optimizations
• Experience leveraging modern developer tooling, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve engineering productivity and quality
• Experience serving as a technical lead for large cross-functional initiatives
• Experience working in high-growth product organizations where ambiguity, changing requirements, and rapid iteration are common
• Experience in insurance, construction, mapping, field-service, computer vision, or camera-based applications

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 $194,000 - $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.