Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Rover.com; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global pet care platform in the UK is looking for a senior level engineer with extensive experience in web development and React Native. The role involves solving complex technical issues, mentoring junior developers, and setting the technical roadmap. The position offers flexible work hours, competitive compensation, and a great company culture focused on inclusivity and professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

25 days paid time off

Private health insurance

Discounted Gym Membership

Bring your dog to work

Flexible work hours

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a professional software developer.
• Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices.
• Experience handling large-scale tech upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex technical problems for web and React Native clients.
• Set technical standards and mentor junior engineers.
• Build hybrid-first code that works across web and React Native.

Skills

JavaScript frameworks (especially React)

React Native development

Coaching junior developers

Automated testing and code quality

Job description

Overview

Who we are: Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We’re an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world\'s most respected tech companies. We’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.

This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. This role is permanent/full-time and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou in Barcelona.

Meet the Team

We are the Client Platform team. We help teams at Rover build high quality experiences fast by focusing on the underlying tools and frameworks. As a Platform team, we build out the fundamental tech that powers the internals of Rover.com and the mobile apps. We empower developers to be able to focus more on building great experiences than fighting their tech.

We are the native-app experts complementing a web/React Native focus. This role is based in our office in Barcelona and will work virtually alongside other team members based in Seattle, WA in the US.

This Role

We are looking for a senior level engineer with a primarily web development background who is excited to work both on Web React and React Native. As a senior engineer on our team, you will:

• Solve complex technical problems at the fundamentals of our web and React Native clients.
• Set technical standards across Rover, evangelize and educate on those standards.
• Build hybrid-first code that works across both web and React Native.
• Help set the technical roadmap and vision for the team.
• Work with other engineers in Barcelona to mentor them and answer questions on Client Platform topics.
• Mentor and coach more junior engineers.

We have other team members who are native-app experts and primarily handle needs on that side. You will complement them with a web and React Native focus.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for a senior level engineer, with a rich background of solving complex web and React Native issues. You may not have all of these, but some of the things you will bring are:

• 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 (see above)
• Experience building reusable frontend design 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 and the ability to ship code with effective monitoring and logging
• Judgment to know when to ship and when to polish
• You’re aligned with Rover Core Values

Our Style

• We are professional software developers building high quality, scalable, supportable solutions
• We are curious and passionate about learning, and provide the right environment for professional growth
• We are committed to fostering inclusivity and diversity on our teams and products
• We embrace progressive engineering practices including continuous deployment, automated testing and deployment
• We maintain thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection
• We are data-driven in our decision making
• Our teams are integrated with developers, product managers, designers and data scientists working side-by-side
• Dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Permanent contract
• Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
• Pension Plan
• Meal tickets through Cobee
• 25 days paid time off, plus public holidays
• Private health insurance
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Monetary help for adopting a dog plus yearly credit to use on our platform
• Flexible work hours
• Snacks and fruit in our kitchen
• Regular team activities, including happy hours, game nights, and more

Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment. 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.