Who we are

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast‑growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet.

We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as 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 committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. It is full‑time permanent and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).

About The Booking Experience Team

We're the team behind one of the most critical moments in the Rover journey: making a booking. Our mission is to make it fast, easy, and intuitive for pet parents to connect with the right sitter.

We're a cross‑functional team based in Barcelona, working closely across engineering, product, design, and data science. We make decisions together, support each other, and share ownership of our work. Our primary metric is conversion, and because it sits at the heart of Rover's business, our work has a direct, visible impact across the platform.

You'll be joining seven talented and supportive full‑stack engineers who care deeply about clean code, thoughtful collaboration, and delivering high‑quality user experiences. We take our work seriously, but we also love to have fun together, whether it's team lunches, offsites, or casual coffee chats on the terrace at the office.

If you're looking to learn from a strong team, make an impact, and enjoy the ride along the way, we'd love to hear from you.

We're Looking For Someone Who

Has a true passion for Rover's mission and values and is highly motivated by the responsibility to foster a safe environment for our community

Has empathy for users and enjoys building customer‑facing products that improve people's and pets' lives

Takes ownership of problems end‑to‑end: from understanding the business need, to designing the solution, shipping it, and monitoring it in production

Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward

Brings their own unique background to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives

Cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and engineering craftsmanship; writing code that is clear, well‑tested, and built to last

Is excited about using AI tools to accelerate their workflow, improve code quality, and ship faster. You see AI as a core part of modern software engineering,



not a novelty

Is equally eager to share their knowledge and help foster a culture of learning through mentoring, code reviews, and technical leadership

Your Qualifications

7+ years of experience as a professional software engineer, with a strong track record of delivering backend systems

Technical leadership: you've mentored engineers, driven architectural decisions, led technical design reviews, or shaped team engineering practices, formally or informally

Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python and Django. If your background is in another major backend language (Java, Go, C#, Kotlin), that's absolutely welcome, what matters most is engineering depth, and we'll support you in ramping up on our stack

Solid knowledge of relational databases (schema design, query optimization, migrations)

Observability mindset: experience instrumenting services with structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. You care about understanding system behavior in production, not just at deploy time

Strong testing discipline: you champion automated testing (unit, integration, contract) and treat it as a core part of shipping, not an afterthought

AI‑augmented engineering: you actively use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) in your daily work, for code generation, debugging, refactoring, code review, and exploring unfamiliar codebases. You understand how to write effective prompts, validate AI output critically, and integrate these tools into a professional workflow

Comfortable working across the stack: while your strength is backend, you can navigate a React/TypeScript frontend to unblock yourself or collaborate effectively with frontend engineers

Nice to have

Experience with React or React Native, enough to contribute to frontend work when the team needs it

Experience with distributed systems patterns: async task queues (Celery, RabbitMQ or similar), caching layers (Memcached, Redis), and event‑driven architectures

Familiarity with search infrastructure (Elasticsearch or similar)

Experience with REST API design at scale (Django REST Framework or equivalent)

Exposure to continuous deployment pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code practices

Experience pushing the boundaries of AI‑assisted development, building custom workflows, automating repetitive tasks, or using AI tools beyond basic code completion

General Skills

You are a collaborative team player who lifts others through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and pairing

You bring analytical thinking to new problems and are energized by ambiguity

You are meticulous about system design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers





You are comfortable working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP)

Good level of written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English)

You love pets!

Our style

We are proud to be professional software developers building high‑quality, scalable, and 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, both on our teams and in our products

We embrace progressive engineering practices, including continuous deployment, automated testing, observability‑first development, and AI‑augmented workflows powered by tools like Claude Code, every engineer on the team uses AI daily to move faster and build better software

We are serious about the quality of our production operations, with 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

We run Maker Days three times a year, company‑wide hackathons where engineers get to explore new ideas, experiment with emerging technologies, and build creative prototypes outside their day‑to‑day work

And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits Of Working At Rover

Long‑term incentive plan with a company performance‑based cash payout

Pension plan

Private medical insurance

25 days PTO

Meal allowance and adaptable compensation plan (transport and nursery)

Gym membership

€450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet

Annual €150 wellness reimbursement

Flexible work hours — sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're flexible when it comes to managing workload and time

Dedicated learning time

Grab snacks and fresh fruit in our kitchen to keep yourself going

Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more

Dog‑friendly office

Compensation In the greater Barcelona area the first‑year salary range is €62,722 - €76,027. Additionally, Rover offers a long‑term incentive plan with a company performance‑based cash payout and benefits to full‑time employees The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent 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.

📌 Senior Product Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Rover.Com
📍 Madrid