Engineering Manager, Matching

Job Description

Who we are: Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies. At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees. Meet the Team We are the Matching team focused on creating a ‘best-in-class’ search experience to connect owners and providers with the best match for their pet and service needs. Curating a good matching experience involves managing the health of both sides of the marketplace, fostering a successful and satisfied supply base, collecting accurate availability information from providers, determining fee structures and providing pricing guidance, optimizing for distance between owner and provider, and creating a seamless UI/UX to tie it all together. We are metrics-driven, obsessed with our primary KPIs: “search to request” and “search to book”. Most of our product launches are experiments behind an A/B or geo-split test. We are a cross-functional team of engineering, product management and design. We work very closely with an adjacent team of data scientists and analysts. As an Engineering Manager, you can shape many projects across much of Rover’s tech stack. You support the team in making technical decisions and weighing tradeoffs for what’s important to help us move faster and test more features. When successful, your impact will be clearly measurable.

We're looking for leaders who:

• Are passionate about Rover’s mission to make it easier for more people to experience the love of a pet
• Bring their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives
• Enjoy seeing their team’s efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers
• Use qualitative and quantitative feedback to determine what to build
• Are eager to learn and improve their craft as an engineering leader
• Are passionate about seeing your team grow and develop professionally
• Are not afraid to get hands-on occasionally with their team (can review their engineers' implementation plans and pull requests)
• Can align business objectives to technology investments and communicate that to team and company stakeholders
• Can effectively communicate design/engineering trade-offs to product managers/designers and other stakeholders
• Can balance workloads and forecast schedules across multiple workstreams
• Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a professional software developer.
• 1+ years of people management experience - building diverse, empowered teams with high psychological safety
• Experience with technologies similar to Rover’s stack (i.e., Python, Django, Typescript, React, React Native)
• Experience with agile development methodologies to prioritize, estimate, and deliver projects with increasing efficiency
• Experience with large-scale, consumer-facing websites
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• You get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment, and your values align with Rover's Core Values.
• Plus: Experience with any of the specific technologies we use - Python/Django, React/Redux, React Native, Elasticsearch
• Plus: Experience working with data scientists and analysts

Our Style:

• We are proud to be professional software developers building high-quality, scalable, supportable solutions.
• We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth
• We are committed to building, fostering, and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity on both our teams and in our products
• We embrace progressive engineering practices, including a continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing, and deployment.
• We are serious about the quality of our production operation and have a thorough system, application, and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
• We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.
• Our teams are integrated with developers, product managers, designers, and data scientists working side-by-side.
• And dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits of working at Rover:

• Competitive compensation
• 401k Match
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Pet benefits, including $1,000 toward adopting your first dog or cat
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly
• Regular team activities, including happy hours, snow tubing, game nights, and more

Compensation:

• In the greater Seattle area, the first-year salary range is $153,430 - $190,766. Additionally, Rover offers benefits to full-time employees. The salary range in WA (outside of the Seattle area) is $127,965 - $162,935. Salary ranges in remote states vary.
• The cash compensation offered for this role will depend on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities, as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

Rover is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Apply for this job