Staff Software Engineer — 3D Scoping & Estimation Platform

Hover; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 237,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Healthcare coverage

Unlimited PTO

Family leave

Self-care days

Wellbeing resources

Learning & training

Job summary

Hover is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive 3D scoping, estimates, and scope-to-order features across insurance claims and homeowner projects. You’ll own the technical direction and collaborate with adjusters, contractors, and product teams to shape scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.

You’ll split time between design/coding and mentoring, helping define shared surfaces for restoration and retail workflows. Hybrid US role with base salary in a high six figures.

Qualifications

• Experience operating as a Staff Software Engineer or equivalent, setting technical direction for a product area across multiple engineers.
• Deep backend and systems design skills, and a track record of owning a complex domain end to end rather than a single service within it.
• Experience building customer-facing products, and comfort working directly with customers to understand their workflow.
• Clear, direct communication: you give specific feedback, say where things stand, and contribute to product and business decisions, not only technical ones.
• Comfort making progress while direction is still being set.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, or a similar stack you can ramp on quickly.

Responsibilities

• Designing how inspection data flows into the estimates engine, so users stop re-entering what Hover already knows.
• Making Hover estimates hold up for enterprise carriers and export cleanly to estimatics platforms like Xactimate and Cotality.
• Setting a visible bar on code quality and throughput for engineers across levels.
• Partnering with product, design, insurance integrations, and our materials platform team on shared surfaces.
• Turning Hover’s property data into scope, cost, and design recommendations for homeowners planning changes to their property.

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Hover is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive 3D scoping, estimates, and scope-to-order features across insurance claims and homeowner projects. You’ll own the technical direction and collaborate with adjusters, contractors, and product teams to shape scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.

You’ll split time between design/coding and mentoring, helping define shared surfaces for restoration and retail workflows. Hybrid US role with base salary in a high six figures.