6 months ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, ship, and monitor customer-facing Trust & Safety systems for identity verification, risk scoring, fraud detection, and AI-powered real-time detection.
- Deliver backend systems and contribute across the stack in collaboration with product managers, designers, and data scientists.
- Drive technical design reviews, architectural decisions, mentoring, code reviews, and improvements to team engineering practices.
- Build observable, reliable production services using structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
- Champion automated unit, integration, and contract testing and maintain high standards for code quality and maintainability.
- Use AI coding assistants for code generation, debugging, refactoring, code review, and exploring unfamiliar codebases.
- Contribute to distributed systems, asynchronous task processing, caching, event-driven architectures, search infrastructure, and REST APIs as needed.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record delivering backend systems.
- Technical leadership experience through mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, leading technical design reviews, or shaping engineering practices.
- Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Python and Django; experience with Java, Go, C#, or Kotlin is also welcome.
- Solid knowledge of relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
- Experience with structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and production observability.
- Strong automated testing discipline covering unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Daily professional use of AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Copilot, including validating and integrating generated output.
- Ability to work across the stack and navigate a React/TypeScript frontend.
- Preferred experience with React or React Native, Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch, Django REST Framework, continuous deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and custom AI-assisted development workflows.
- Strong collaboration, analytical thinking, system design, user experience, written and spoken English, and comfort with Scrum, Kanban, or XP.
Benefits
- Full-time permanent role with visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to Barcelona.
- Hybrid work with office attendance on Mondays and Thursdays in Poblenou, Barcelona.
- First-year salary range of €62,722–€76,027, plus a performance-based long-term incentive plan.
- Pension plan, private medical insurance, 25 days of paid time off, meal allowance, and flexible compensation for transport and nursery.
- Gym membership, €450 pet-adoption support, and an annual €150 wellness reimbursement.
- Flexible work hours, dedicated learning time, company-wide Maker Days, team activities, events, game nights, snacks, fresh fruit, and a dog-friendly office.
Categories
BackendProduct Engineering
About Rover.com
Rover.com runs an online marketplace and mobile app that connects pet owners with independent pet sitters, dog walkers, and boarders. It monetizes through service fees on bookings and provides tools for scheduling, payments, messaging, and support, including coverage for stays. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Rover operates across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.