Senior iOS Engineer, Inspections

Hover; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Healthcare coverage

Unlimited PTO

Parental and new-child leave

Self-care days

Wellbeing resources

Learning & training support

Job summary

Hover is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to lead the migration of the Inspections product from React Native to native iOS, with a longer-term roadmap toward an SDK. You will own the technical direction, identify bugs and opportunities, and partner with Product and Design to balance progress with live product needs.

You will help shape the Inspections experience, break down multi-month efforts, and communicate changes to a broad user base of contractors and insurance professionals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of mobile engineering experience in production
• 2+ years focused on native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) in production
• Experience building or maintaining a bridge layer between React Native and native code
• Comfort with Xcode and the build, signing, and provisioning process
• Track record of turning ambiguous problems into a scoped plan and delivering
• Strong collaborative communication with Product and Design to find a path forward
• Comfort communicating change to a large, varied customer base

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for moving Inspections from React Native to native iOS and later to an SDK
• Diagnose and resolve reliability and consistency issues in the current inspections flow
• Decompose multi-month initiatives into scoped workstreams for yourself and teammates
• Partner with Product and Design on scoping tradeoffs while keeping end user experience front and center
• Communicate proactively with a diverse customer base ahead of, during, and after rollouts

Skills

Mobile engineering

iOS development

Bridge RN/native

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Xcode

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.

Why Hover wants you

Hover's Inspections product is the primary way our insurance customers document, measure, and act on the condition of a property. Today, it runs almost entirely on React Native, and we’re looking to change that. We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to lead the transition of this product to native code, starting with iOS. You'll be the go-to technical authority for how inspections get built natively going forward, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our SDK and Mobile Core teams to bring the same polish our platform SDKs are known for to the Inspections experience. This is a role for someone who wants real ownership over a loosely-defined migration, not just a set of tickets. You'll decide how we get there, and you'll help shape what "there" looks like.

You will contribute by

You'll take a product that's still being defined and bring clarity to it, identifying bugs and opportunities as you go deep on how inspections actually work today. From there, you'll build the roadmap for moving Inspections to native, balancing forward progress with a live product that thousands of contractors and insurance professionals rely on every day. You'll break big, ambiguous initiatives down into scoped pieces of work, some of which you'll own yourself, some you'll hand off to other teammates. Along the way, you’ll partner closely with Product and Design to solve problems together. Being successful in this role means you'll be the connective tissue between the Inspections team, the SDK team, and Mobile Core.

• Own the technical direction for moving the Inspections product from React Native to native iOS and in the longer term from native iOS to an SDK
• Diagnose and resolve reliability and consistency issues in the current inspections flow
• Decompose ambiguous, multi-month initiatives into workstreams for yourself, and your teammates.
• Partner with Product and Design on scoping tradeoffs while keeping the end user experience front and center
• Communicate proactively with a diverse customer base ahead of, during, and after rollouts

Your background includes

• 5+ years of mobile engineering experience, with 2+ years focused specifically on native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) in production
• Experience building or maintaining a bridge layer between React Native and native code
• Comfort with Xcode and the build, signing, and provisioning process
• A track record of turning ambiguous problems into a scoped plan, for yourself and for others
• Strong collaborative communication you work with Product and Design to find a path forward
• Comfort communicating change to a large, varied customer base

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with camera-centric native apps (photo/video capture, on-device processing)
• Experience deploying on-device AI/ML models
• Experience contributing to React Native codebases, especially RN-to-native migrations

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 $173,000- $214,000 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.