Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Hover; New York (NY); On-site; USD 194,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Healthcare coverage

Unlimited vacation policy

Generous parental leave

Mandatory self-care days

Remote wellbeing resources

Continued education support

Job summary

A technology-driven company in New York is seeking a skilled software engineer focusing on cloud infrastructure, particularly dealing with 3D data and machine learning. The role involves improving CI/CD pipelines, designing cloud architecture, and collaborating with diverse engineering teams. With a competitive salary and a commitment to employee well-being, this opportunity is perfect for those who thrive in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building or operating infrastructure.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience.
• Proven experience working with Kubernetes in production.

Responsibilities

• Help build solutions to problems while improving the development platform.
• Design scalable cloud architecture.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Go

Python

Ruby

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Tools

GCP

AWS

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.

About The Position

You are a strong software engineer with an affinity for cloud infrastructure. An individual who is eager to learn about and solve a diverse set of infrastructure problems that are unique to a company that deals heavily with 3D data, computer vision, and machine learning. Someone who likes building internal tools and who thinks finding a simple solution to a hard problem is a high form of art. You are comfortable keeping up with an industry that is changing rapidly.

The Infrastructure team interacts with or owns everything past the application binary. The rest of engineering is our customer. Through automation, we strive to have the easiest path be the fastest and most secure path. We own, maintain, and advise on all cloud infrastructure such as our Kubernetes environment, databases, network, storage, and cache. All of engineering are our peers and we work with them to form consistent patterns for solutions to common architectural challenges around rich geospatial and machine learning workloads. We have a strong command over best practices for cloud architecture and CI/CD and use application development as a means to apply them.

You will contribute by helping us build boring solutions to interesting problems while improving the platform that engineering teams build on.

You Will Work Closely With Engineers Across The Company To Make Their Applications Faster To Deploy, Easier To Operate, And More Reliable In Production. You’ll Collaborate With Frontend, Backend, Computer Vision, Data, Security, And Machine Learning Teams To Bring New Ideas To Production At Scale. Because The Team Is Small And Highly Collaborative, The Work Is Varied And High-impact.

• Designing scalable cloud architecture
• Improving CI/CD pipelines or developer tooling
• Building Kubernetes platform capabilities
• Writing Helm charts or deployment automation
• Optimizing Docker images and container workflows
• Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform in GCP
• Improving observability, reliability, or security posture

Your work will directly improve the developer experience at Hover while helping build the platform that powers our computer vision and machine learning systems.

Your background includes:

• 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building or operating infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in Go, Python, or Ruby
• Proven experience working with Kubernetes, including deploying and operating containerized workloads in production environments
• Hands‑on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, including building and optimizing container images
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (strongly preferred), or configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, with willingness to learn or deepen expertise in GCP
• A systems‑oriented mindset; you think about reliability, observability, failure modes, and scalability when designing infrastructure
• Experience collaborating with engineers across teams to design platform capabilities or improve developer experience
• Comfort working across multiple parts of the infrastructure stack and learning new tools, technologies, and practices as the platform evolves

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 $194,000 - $239,000 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.