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.
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 Staff Software Engineer to help scale our Core UX team, focused on solving foundational customer experience challenges across Hover’s platform. You’ll work on the highest impact problems for our small business customers in an environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys turning undefined customer problems into intuitive, scalable product experiences. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and design leaders to shape technical direction, lead complex initiatives, and help establish the systems, culture, and engineering practices of a rapidly growing team.
Starting with customer obsession. What are customers trying to accomplish? Where are they getting stuck? How can we make complex workflows feel simple and intuitive? You’ll lead through discovery, collaboration, and execution — diving into ambiguous product areas, partnering closely with product and design, and helping shape solutions from early concept through launch and iteration.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work across the stack — primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native — building scalable systems and polished user experiences that power Hover’s core platform and solve meaningful problems for our customers. You’ll also help improve shared systems, mentor engineers, and raise the quality bar across the team.
On our team, you may work on:
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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 $230,000 - $285,000 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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Hover transforms smartphone photos of any property into an accurate, interactive 3D model, giving people the power to unlock the true potential of home. With Hover, homeowners and construction pros can design homes with Generative AI, get better estimates, receive exact measurements, and more. Hover’s insurance industry customers use our integrated claims automation system to reduce costs, decrease cycle times, and streamline the inspections to claims workflow. Offering solutions to homeowners, construction pros, and the insurance market, Hover makes home improvement easier and more efficient than ever before.
Every three seconds, a property is captured with Hover. Over 300,000 contractors and home improvement professionals, and over 500,000 homeowners have captured millions of properties and modeled billions of square feet using Hover's technology.
