Senior Engineering Manager, Estimation

Hover; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 227,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid time off

Parental leave

Self-care days

Wellbeing resources

Learning & development

Job summary

Hover is building an estimating product that integrates with our measurements and 3D AI workflow. We are seeking a senior leader to own the roadmap end-to-end for the Hover estimating product line, unifying retail and restoration/insurance use cases without forking the product or team.

You will manage the Estimates team (six engineers) and collaborate weekly with product, design, and data groups to ship toward a single direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with ownership of a product roadmap.
• 4+ years managing engineering teams and hiring.
• Experience leading multiple teams or focus areas.
• Experience managing engineers with pricing/configuration/rules logic.
• Architectural depth and ability to defend decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own Hover's estimating product roadmap end to end.
• Define two connected use cases: retail and restoration/insurance.
• Directly manage the Estimates team (six engineers) and coordinate with product, design, and data groups.
• Lead move to a flexible estimating engine and reduce legacy functionality.
• Partner with catalog team to build standalone pricing functionality.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Product roadmap

Pricing/CPQ knowledge

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL federation

Postgres

Job 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

Today, contractors juggle a stack of disconnected tools to run their business: a CRM, a measurement app, an estimating tool, a photo app. Hover already owns the measurement. Now we're building the estimate, the step that turns a completed scope into a signed deal.

We just launched a major update to our estimation product, and it's showing early signs of success with enterprise customers testing it in the real world. You'll lead the team that takes it further, building an estimating product that stands on its own, tightly integrated with Hover's measurements and our 3D generative AI interaction product. It sits on top of Hover's property data, where we're giving contractors and adjusters new ways to see a property and derive the work to be done from it.

You will contribute by

You'll own the roadmap for Hover's estimating product line end to end, making the case for what wins with enterprise customers rather than shipping a feature list. That means defining and moving two connected but distinct use cases, retail and restoration/insurance claims, without forking the product, the roadmap, or the team. You'll manage the Estimates team directly (six engineers today) and partner weekly with a standing product, design, and data group to keep everyone shipping toward one agreed direction.

On the technical side

You'll lead the move to a more flexible estimating engine, one that can take in more kinds of inputs, including what comes out of an inspection or assessment, without forking logic per use case. You'll also reduce the cost of maintaining the estimates system we already have, including an in-flight consolidation into the main application, favoring removal of legacy functionality over building around it, and partner with the catalog team to build a standalone pricing function so a Hover estimate can carry its own pricing. Along the way, you'll sit directly in front of the enterprise customers whose workflows are shaping this roadmap, and hire and grow the team as scope expands.

Your background includes

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ managing engineering teams, with real ownership over a product line's roadmap rather than execution against someone else's plan.
• A full cycle of people management behind you: hiring and leveling, coaching senior engineers, running performance conversations, and promoting people into bigger scope.
• Experience managing more than one team or focus area at once.
• Experience managing engineers who've built systems with real pricing, configuration, or rules logic.
• Technical depth strong enough to make architecture calls and defend them. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL federation, or Postgres is a plus, not a requirement.
• AI fluency in how a team builds: a point of view on where generative tooling belongs in the workflow, how to roll it out, and how to tell whether it's actually working.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with estimating, quoting, CPQ, or catalog and pricing platforms in any vertical.
• Experience taking a product from early traction to something enterprise customers run production work through.
• Experience with partner, distributor, or third-party integration ecosystems.
• Background in construction, roofing, restoration, or insurance claims software, including carrier-side estimating and claims acceptance standards.
• Experience building on 3D, spatial, or computer vision derived data.

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

Hybrid roles at Hover

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 $227,000-$280,000 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.