Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Grover
Vienna, Austria
23 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Barcelona, Spain

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Automation of Tests
Software Quality
Continuous Delivery
Relational Databases
Django
Human-Computer Interaction
Python
Scrum
Software Engineering
React
Extreme Programming (XP)
React Native

Job description

  • 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 building, fostering, and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity on our teams and in our products.
  • We embrace progressive engineering practices, including a continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing, and deployment.
  • We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application, and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
  • We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.
  • Our teams are integrated, with developers, product managers, designers, and data scientists working side-by-side.
  • And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits of Working at Rover:

  • Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
  • Pension plan
  • Private medical insurance
  • 25 days PTO
  • Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)
  • Gym membership
  • €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet
  • Annual €150 wellness reimbursement
  • Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time
  • Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
  • Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
  • Dog-friendly office

Requirements

  • 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!
  • Brings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives.
  • Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with others to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
  • Is eager to improve their craft as a software engineer and is excited to learn new technologies.
  • Is equally eager to share their knowledge and help foster a culture of learning.
  • Thrives in a heavily collaborative environment and has great mentorship skills., * 7+ years of experience as a professional software developer
  • Experience building web and/or mobile applications
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
  • Experience with technologies similar to Rover's tech stack: React, React Native, Python, and Django
  • Experience leading complex projects on collaborative, cross-functional teams
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of relational databases and schema design
  • Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and general software engineering best practices.

General Skills:

  • You are a great team player.
  • You are meticulous about design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers.
  • You are used to working with different agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/XP).
  • You love new challenges and are eager to solve new problems by applying analytical thinking.
  • You are business-fluent in written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English).
  • You love pets!

About the company

We're on a mission to re-invent consumption and to make innovative technology accessible to everyone. Up to date, we raised 250 million euros, becoming a leading startup of the Circular Economy worldwide. Our model? For a low monthly fee, private customers, as well as businesses, get access to a wide assortment of tech products at a fraction of the purchase price ;)

We are at the forefront of reducing waste and establishing a more sustainable way of using products for both consumers and the environment!

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