Desired Skills and Experience

  • 6+ years as a professional software developer
  • (3+ years working with Django and Python) OR (3+ years working with Ruby on Rails AND 3+ years working with any other programming language)
  • Excellent TDD and test automation skills
  • Excellent debugging, profiling, and root cause analysis skills
  • Experience with query optimization tools both at a database and ORM query optimization level
  • Working knowledge of software development lifecycle and Agile development practices – we run a continuous delivery operation (10 minutes from commit to live on site)
  • We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable, supportable solutions
  • We embrace progressive engineering practices including a continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing and deployment. Our engineers just merge their branch and it ships.
  • We’re serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
  • We’re thoughtful and focused on decision-making with split testing
  • Our teams are integrated team with developers, product managers and designers working side-by-side.
  • And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!
  • You’re qualified for the position and your values align with Rover’s Core Values
  • You get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
  • You’re eager to learn and improve your craft as a software engineer
  • You’re able to take loose requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward
  • You can be your own QA team
  • You have the intuition for when to call it “good enough” and ship, and when to put in the extra time to polish
  • We offer competitive compensation including stock options.
  • You’ll receive a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401k.
  • Our office is located convenient to public transportation and we offer paid commuter benefits.
  • You can bring your dog to work, and if you don’t have a dog we’ll contribute $1000 toward adopting a dog.
  • You get extra PTO if you are a dog sitter on Rover.
  • Of course, we have stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs), plus an all-team catered lunch on Tuesdays.
  • Finally, we have an active social calendar with regular team activities, including happy hours, snow tubing, game nights, and more.

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