Lead Software Engineer (US)
Rove
Software Engineering
New York, USA · Remote
Posted on Jan 21, 2025
This role is remote but living in New York City for periodic co-location is required.
Company Description:
Rove is a rapidly growing marketplace for luxury property rentals. We are revolutionizing the luxury property rental market by creating a new standard of trust and ease for guests and home owners alike paired with property management software to make renting out luxury homes easier than ever.
Headquartered in New York, Rove provides exceptional, high-end guest experiences in thoughtfully designed spaces across New York City, The Hamptons, Aspen, and Florida and other top destinations across the US. We are venture funded and growing rapidly, led by a founding team with experience at Y Combinator, SpaceX, Snap, June Homes, Avant Stay, Kasa Living, Sonder, and more.
Job Description:
We are looking for an ambitious Founding Lead Backend Software Engineer based in New York City to help Rove build a best in class engineering organization. Your core responsibility will be enhancing our guest booking software and building a property management system purpose built for the modern luxury homeowner. You will work directly with the CEO and CTO on product development and be a leader in the engineering organization to bring each product to market. You will code directly as well as manage staff on our engineering team.
At Rove you will:
- Build features for a best-in-class, responsive and performant booking platform that implements the engineering principles you want
- Lead feature development and integrations for property management software designed for luxury properties (e.g. guest screening software, a security deposit system, etc.)
- Apply best practices on QA, testing, dev ops, CI/CD and deployments
- Handle all infrastructure and deployments
- Build an amazing engineering culture
Who we're look for:
- You have 4+ years experience in software development
- 2+ years of engineering experience building products at a startup
- You love staying on top of modern tools in software engineering and applying them (e.g. AI)
- You are scrappy and comfortable working across the tech stack
- You are excited about bringing an engineering org from 0.1 to 1
- You have product sense and like to built unique and beautiful customer facing applications
- You have experience in React, Node.js, and AWS
- You value strong communication and collaboration
Compensation
- Base salary of $150,000 — $250,000 per year
- 0.5% — 1% equity
- Top of the line health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401(k) with 3% employer match
- Unlimited PTO and generous maternity/paternity leave policy