About the Position

Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Barcelona

About the Company

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values-driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, you will:

Solve complex technical problems at the fundamentals of our web and React Native clients.
Work to set technical standards across Rover; then evangelize and educate on those standards.
Build cross-platform code that works across both web and React Native.
Help to set a technical roadmap and vision for the team.
Work with other engineers in Barcelona to help mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics.
Represent Client Platform in broad forums and collect feedback that helps inform the team’s roadmap and vision.
Help mentor and coach more junior engineers.

Requirements

7+ years as a professional software developer
Expertise with JavaScript frameworks (especially React) and component-driven design.
Experience in React Native development.
Expertise in multiple parts of our tech stack (React, Webpack, Django, Next.js).
Experience building reusable frontend libraries.
Experience handling large-scale technology upgrades across a broad range of a codebase.
An excitement for defining technical standards that make sense for the organization.
Experience coaching more junior developers.
Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering standard methodologies.
A focus on observability, a propensity to ship code with effective monitoring and logging.
Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish.
You’re aligned with Rover Core Values.

Technologies

Frontend: React, React Native
Backend: Django, Next.js
Build Tools: Webpack
Development Environment: Codespaces

AI/LLM Based Development

Heavy users of AI tools like Claude for daily engineering practices.
Expectations to adopt AI practices in role and bring your own experience and perspectives.

We Offer

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
Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
Dog-friendly office

Compensation

In the greater Barcelona area the first-year salary range is €62,722 - €76,027. Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.

About Rover

Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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