Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Dover is building the first end-to-end recruiting orchestration platform for the world's top companies. We combine best-in-class candidate evaluation technology with bespoke process automation to help companies find and hire top talent for their open roles.

We've built a better way. Our advanced matching software identifies the perfect candidates across all recruiting channels and candidate sources, and drives the hiring process to create a seamless, white-glove experience for both companies and candidates.

For startups, this is essentially a recruiting-department-in-a-box they can plug in to immediately uplevel their recruiting. With larger companies, we work alongside individual hiring managers to provide them with a miniature personal recruiting department. Our big realization was that recruiting is really 10% strategic work and 90% administrative work -we've built a product that helps hiring teams with the 10% strategic work while automating the 90% of tedious work in a white-glove, high-touch way to create an amazing candidate experience. But since our product is totally white-labeled, to candidates it looks like the client company is really on top of their hiring process.

About the role

Backend engineers are building the core of our products in a spectacularly robust fashion. As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, services, and configurable and scalable models. You will partner with many functions at Dover, with the opportunity to both works on infrastructure/platform systems as well as produce direct user-facing business impact. We’re looking to grow our backend engineering team. You’re comfortable dealing with multiple moving pieces and effectively working cross-team and cross-functional collaborations. You’re looking forward to learning new technologies, systems, and problem domains.

What you'll do

• You will design and build software capable of reaching millions of users
• You will partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves those needs
• You will develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation
• You will improve the team and company – you will be an active participant in our culture (mentorship, interviewing, and new initiatives)
• You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions
• Identify, prioritize, and resolve the biggest problems facing customers of Dover
• Work with peers to design and build tools and capabilities to enable efficient development and use of Dover
• Write high-quality, performant code, and support our peer teams throughout the company doing the same

What we're seeking

Must have

• You are familiar with web application backends
• You are familiar with modern backend
• 5+ years of professional experience
• US work authorization preferred, but can work with all candidates on a case by case basis
• This position can be done remotely from the US
• You have led a team and coached junior team members on best practices

Nice to have

• Experience planning sprints
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering, or other technical degrees
• You are energized by working on both backend and frontend projects
• Passion for doing whatever it takes to solve complex problems and build scalable processes