About the job
At Hover, we empower individuals to conceptualize, enhance, and safeguard the spaces they cherish. Utilizing proprietary AI and over a decade's worth of real property data, we provide answers to pivotal questions such as, 'What will it look like?' and 'What will it cost?' Our platform offers homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals accurately measured, interactive 3D models of properties — all achievable from a smartphone scan in mere minutes.
Driven by curiosity and purpose, we maintain a strong commitment to our customers, communities, and one another. We believe that diverse perspectives foster the best ideas, and we take pride in nurturing an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages growth, accountability, and excellence. Supported by premier investors like Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders such as Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide, we are revolutionizing how individuals perceive and interact with their environments.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Infrastructure, you will delve into cloud infrastructure challenges unique to a company focused on 3D data, computer vision, and machine learning. Your enthusiasm for building internal tools and your talent for crafting elegant solutions to complex issues will be crucial in this role.
Our Infrastructure team is responsible for everything beyond the application binary, serving as a critical partner to the rest of the engineering department. Through automation, we aim to streamline processes, ensuring that the simplest path is also the fastest and most secure. We manage and optimize all cloud infrastructure components including our Kubernetes environment, databases, networks, storage, and caching systems. Collaborating with engineering peers, we establish consistent solutions to common architectural challenges, particularly those involving rich geospatial and machine learning workloads. We are well-versed in best practices for cloud architecture and CI/CD, leveraging application development as a means to implement these practices.
Your Contributions
You will play a pivotal role in developing straightforward solutions to intriguing problems, thereby enhancing the foundation upon which our engineering teams build. Collaborating closely with engineers across the organization, you will help make their applications faster, easier to manage, and more reliable in production. Your work will span frontend, backend, computer vision, data, security, and machine learning teams to scale new ideas into production effectively. Given the small and highly collaborative nature of our team, you can expect a varied and impactful workload, which may include:
- Designing scalable cloud architecture
- Enhancing CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
