Staff Software Engineer, Property AI & Estimations

Hover; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 237,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Healthcare coverage

Unlimited PTO

Paid family leave

Self‑care days

Wellbeing resources

Learning & training

Job summary

Hover seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead backend architecture for the Property Scope stack, directing design of 3D scope, estimates, and catalog integration. You’ll work closely with adjusters and contractors, review code, and help hire engineers to build this critical capability.

You’ll mentor teams, partner with product and design, and shape the direction of our enterprise features while delivering scalable solutions in a hybrid US office model.

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

• Design data flows for the estimates engine and how inspection data feeds into it.
• Enable exports to estimatics platforms like Xactimate and Cotality.
• Set a visible bar on code quality and engineering throughput across levels.
• Partner with product, design, insurance integrations, and materials platform teams on shared surfaces.
• Turn Hover’s property data into scope, cost, and design recommendations for homeowners.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend systems design

Customer-facing product

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Hover seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead backend architecture for the Property Scope stack, directing design of 3D scope, estimates, and catalog integration. You’ll work closely with adjusters and contractors, review code, and help hire engineers to build this critical capability.

You’ll mentor teams, partner with product and design, and shape the direction of our enterprise features while delivering scalable solutions in a hybrid US office model.