Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
$194k - $239k USD
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
At Hover, we’re transforming how construction professionals design, document, scope, and estimate properties with modern tools for industries long underserved by software. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to build interaction-heavy product experiences, raise the quality bar, and lead cross-team delivery that ships to customers and measurably improves the product.
You will be trusted to drive initiatives end to end, bringing in perspective early (design, product, and partner engineering teams), and championing consistent, high-quality UX through strong engineering craft and design system discipline.
You will contribute by
As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll work on design features to help homeowners and construction pros create the perfect home for home renovations. You’ll collaborate across the stack (frontend, APIs, backend systems) to ship customer-facing experiences and ship to customers, from the systems that power AI-driven design to the polished workflows that make editing and sharing designs feel effortless. Check out some of our work here. Or just watch this sizzle reel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3TJsp3BrY
You’ll own complex features end to end, from discovery and planning through launch and iteration, while improving the platform and UI foundations that keep our product consistent, fast, and maintainable. Most weeks you’ll be writing RFCs or tech specs, then executing through a mix of solo work and pair programming across the stack to ship innovative product experiences that delight users. You’ll partner closely with Product Managers and Designers, using customer feedback to continuously improve the user experience. Along the way, you’ll collaborate with engineers to design and evolve systems, refactor safely with solid test coverage, and deploy to production frequently.
You’ll also raise the team’s bar through high-signal PR reviews, mentoring, and pairing, and you’ll champion UX consistency and accessibility by driving design system adoption and closing the highest-impact gaps.
On our team, you will work on:
- Contributing to and advocating for our design system
- Prompt and material management that powers image generation and specific material application (siding, roofing, windows, and more), using Ruby on Rails and ComfyUI.
- 2D and 3D model experiences for applying materials and making detailed edits to a home, using React and Ruby on Rails
- Engagement features like saving, organizing, and sharing designs
- Embedded design capabilities that bring Hover’s experiences onto manufacturer and construction pro sites
Your background includes
- 7+ years of experience building modern frontend applications with JavaScript/TypeScript and React (React Native a plus).
- Deep expertise in React architecture, including component design, state management, performance, and accessibility.
- A high bar for UX quality and consistency, with experience contributing to or evolving a centralized design system/component library.
- Experience building accessible, WCAG-compliant applications.
- Strong experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs, including close collaboration on API design.
- Proficiency with modern frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, NPM, and related ecosystems.
- Demonstrated senior-level ownership: you turn ambiguous problems into clear plans and shipped outcomes with sound technical and product judgment.
- Comfort collaborating across the stack, partnering effectively with backend and platform engineers.
- Strong product instincts and the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- A customer-first mindset, empathy for users, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus points
- Experience in a high growth technology startup
- Experience building complex interactive tools (editor-like UI, visualization-heavy or workflow-heavy products)
- Track record proposing and delivering platform improvements (performance, test reliability, architecture simplification, developer velocity)
- Comfort using modern developer tools, including LLM-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude), with the judgment to validate suggestions
- Experience working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
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.
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