Senior Software Engineer, Core UX
Hover
| Company | Hover |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | san_francisconew_york |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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 homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals design, scope, and improve properties using AI, 3D data, and modern software experiences. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our newly formed Core UX team, focused on building the shared products, platform capabilities, and user experiences that power Hover across Construction, Insurance, and future verticals.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving complex systems problems, and wants to have broad impact across an entire product ecosystem. You’ll work on foundational experiences and infrastructure that every user touches, helping create greater consistency, quality, and reuse across Hover’s platform while accelerating product velocity for teams throughout the company.
You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, design, and data leaders to shape technical direction, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and help establish the architecture, engineering practices, and culture of a rapidly growing team. As one of the early members of Core UX, you'll have a unique opportunity to influence how Hover builds shared systems and experiences for years to come.
You will contribute by
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core UX team, you'll work across the stack, primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL, building scalable services, reusable platform capabilities, and shared product experiences used across Hover's products and business verticals.
You'll lead initiatives end-to-end, from technical discovery and architecture design through launch and iteration. Your work will focus on improving the reliability, scalability, consistency, and maintainability of shared systems while partnering closely with product, design, data, and engineering teams to create reusable solutions that improve product quality and accelerate development across Hover.
On our team, you may work on:
Designing and evolving shared services, APIs, data models, and platform capabilities used across multiple Hover verticals
Building reusable UI components, workflows, and product foundations that create consistent experiences across the platform
Developing systems for displaying measurements and generating configurable outputs across 3D models and PDFsImproving reliability, scalability, and performance across distributed systems and asynchronous workflows
Reducing duplicated effort and technical debt through shared solutions used by multiple product teams
Driving improvements in activation, retention, product quality, and customer experience through more cohesive platform experiences
Your background includes
5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with meaningful backend depth, building and shipping complex, high-impact systems
Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (or similar server-side frameworks) and React
Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable REST and GraphQL APIs and well-structur
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