Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £52,000 - 63,000 per year

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a professional software developer
• Long-term experience with frontend development
• Strong and proven knowledge of ReactJs or React Native
• Experience with Python or another backend language
• Solid knowledge and understanding of relational databases and schema design
• Passion for automated testing, code quality, and software engineering best practices
• Experience pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted development, building custom workflows, automating repetitive tasks, or using AI tools beyond basic code completion
• Professional experience with Django and other Python-based frameworks is a bonus
• Knowledge or interest in React Native is a bonus
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools is a bonus
• Good level of written and spoken English
• Ability to live and work in Spain

Responsibilities:

• Take loose requirements, collaborate with others to determine what needs to be done, and drive projects forward
• Build customer-facing products that improve our users and pets lives
• Improve your craft as a software engineer and learn new technologies
• Share your knowledge and help foster a culture of learning
• Mentor and support other team members
• Work collaboratively with developers, product managers, designers, and data scientists in an integrated team
• Apply analytical thinking to solve new challenges and problems
• Contribute to high-quality, scalable, and supportable solutions
• Work within agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP
• Participate in continuous deployment, automated testing, and production monitoring practices

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Django
• Frontend
• Support
• Kanban
• Python
• React
• React Native
• XP

More:

We are Rover, a values-driven, fast-growing tech company based in Seattle and Barcelona, connecting pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. We invest in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools to help create better experiences for our community. We are committed to an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming workplace and have been recognized as a great place to work. This is a full-time permanent hybrid role in our Barcelona office in Poblenou, with Mondays and Thursdays in the office, and it is approved for sponsorship with relocation assistance to Barcelona. We offer a long-term incentive plan, pension plan, private medical insurance, 25 days PTO, meal allowance, flexible compensation for transport and nursery, gym membership, pet adoption support, wellness reimbursement, flexible work hours, snacks and fruit in the kitchen, regular team activities, and a dog-friendly office. The first-year salary range in the greater Barcelona area is 62,722 - 76,027.

last updated 35 week of 2026