Software Engineer (Mid to Senior)

Rove; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Rove is seeking a Software Engineer to build the backend and travel infrastructure behind our platform and the AI concierge that helps members plan, book, and earn miles.

You’ll own supply aggregation, fast search, tool-driven AI features, and end-to-end integration across NestJS, Next.js, React Native, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, AWS, Stripe, Claude.

Collaborate across teams to ship reliable systems with monitoring and safe money flows, while moving fast in an early-stage startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of TypeScript experience with deep backend depth.
• Built and shipped production systems people depend on.
• Integrated and scaled many third-party APIs with latency and rate-limit considerations.
• Built LLM features or agents used by real users with tool calling, prompts, and evals.
• Think in failure modes: retries, timeouts, idempotency, and safe fallbacks.

Responsibilities

• Build supply aggregation bringing inventory from multiple providers into one platform.
• Improve search speed via caching, parallel requests, and smart timeouts.
• Develop the AI concierge end-to-end (agents, prompts, APIs, web, iMessage).
• Design reliable agent tools with real prices, availability, and safe booking flows.
• Create browser agents for tasks like reservations and loyalty tasks.
• Own quality and performance with tracing, monitoring, and fixes.
• Collaborate across NestJS, Next.js, React Native, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, AWS, Stripe, Claude.

Skills

TypeScript

Backend development

API integration

LLM features

Tool calling

Prompt design

Eval & monitoring

Tools

NestJS

Next.js

React Native

Postgres

Redis

Temporal

AWS

Stripe

Claude

Job description

Rove is looking for a Software Engineer to build the backend and travel infrastructure behind our platform and the AI concierge that helps members plan, book, and earn miles.

What You’ll Do

• Build supply aggregation that brings hotel, flight, and other travel inventory from multiple providers into one reliable platform, including normalization, deduplication, and property mapping.
• Make search dramatically faster through caching, parallel supplier requests, and smart timeout and fallback handling.
• Build and ship the AI concierge end to end, from the agent’s tools and prompts to the backend APIs, the web, and the iMessage experience.
• Design agent tools that are reliable: real prices, verified availability, safe booking flows, with humans approving anything that spends money.
• Build browser agents that act on a member’s behalf: shopping through Rove links, reservations, and loyalty account tasks.
• Own quality and performance: eval sets, tracing, monitoring, and fixing failures you find in real conversations and real searches.
• Work across our stack: NestJS, Next.js, React Native, Postgres and Redis, Temporal, AWS, Stripe, Claude.

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 3+ years of TypeScript experience, with deep backend depth, and have shipped production systems people depend on.
• Have integrated and scaled many third-party APIs, and know how to handle latency, rate limits, and inconsistent data.
• Have built LLM features or agents used by real users, with tool calling, structured output, prompt and context design, and evals.
• Think in failure modes: retries, timeouts, idempotency, and what happens when the model is wrong.
• Care about product and UX as much as code: you notice small details and errors.
• Move fast, own outcomes, and are comfortable with ambiguity at an early-stage startup.

Nice To Have

• Travel technology: GDS, bed banks, NDC, hotel mapping, or booking engines
• Search systems and low-latency query infrastructure
• Browser automation (Playwright, Browserbase, Browser Use)
• Temporal or other durable workflows
• Stripe and payments, loyalty APIs, messaging APIs (iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp)
• AWS, Terraform, Cloudflare