Overview

In this role you will help build and scale Rover's booking experience, making it fast and intuitive for pet parents to find sitters. You’ll join a cross-functional Barcelona team that values quality code and collaborative problem solving. You will own end-to-end projects, shaping architecture and production monitoring while leveraging AI to accelerate development. This is a chance to influence core product impact and grow within a diverse, learning-focused culture.

Compensaciones / Beneficios

- pension plan
- private medical insurance
- 25 days PTO
- adaptable work hours
- pet adoption stipend
- wellness reimbursement

Responsabilidades

- Own end-to-end project delivery from understanding the business need to design, ship, and monitor in production
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to define scope and drive delivery
- Develop and maintain backend services with a focus on code quality, testability, and maintainability
- Contribute to system architecture decisions and engineering best practices
- Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and foster technical leadership
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, and refactoring and integrate AI into workflow




- Collaborate across the stack, including frontend collaboration with React/TypeScript when needed
- Maintain observability through structured logs, metrics, tracing, and alerting

Requisitos principales

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of delivering backend systems
- Strong backend experience with Python and Django (or equivalent languages, e.g., Java, Go, C#, Kotlin)
- Relational databases knowledge: design, migrations, query optimization
- Observability mindset: instrumentation, metrics, tracing, alerting
- Strong testing discipline with automated testing (unit, integration, contract)
- Experience using AI coding assistants and understanding prompts and evaluation (Claude Code, Copilot or similar)
- Ability to work across the stack and collaborate with frontend engineers when needed
- English proficiency (written and spoken) and collaborative, agile mindset
- Mentorship or technical leadership experience

- collaborative team player
- empathy for users
- ownership and accountability
- Python
- Django
- Relational databases

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