Software Engineer (Mid to Senior)

About this role

Software Engineer (Mid to Senior)

$150K - $300K•0.10% - 0.50%•New York, NY, US

Job type

Full-time

Role

Engineering, Backend

Experience

3+ years

Visa

US citizen/visa only

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, Node.js, React Native, Redis, TypeScript, Software Security, Next.js, LLMs, AI Agents, NestJS

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About the role

Rove is looking for a Software Engineer to build the backend and travel infrastructure behind our platform and the AI concierge that helps members plan, book, and earn miles.

What you’ll do:

• Build supply aggregation that brings hotel, flight, and other travel inventory from multiple providers into one reliable platform, including normalization, deduplication, and property mapping.
• Make search dramatically faster through caching, parallel supplier requests, and smart timeout and fallback handling.
• Build and ship the AI concierge end to end, from the agent’s tools and prompts to the backend APIs, the web, and the iMessage experience.
• Design agent tools that are reliable: real prices, verified availability, safe booking flows, with humans approving anything that spends money.
• Build browser agents that act on a member’s behalf: shopping through Rove links, reservations, and loyalty account tasks.
• Own quality and performance: eval sets, tracing, monitoring, and fixing failures you find in real conversations and real searches.
• Work across our stack: NestJS, Next.js, React Native, Postgres and Redis, Temporal, AWS, Stripe, Claude.

You might be a fit if you:

• Have 3+ years of TypeScript experience, with deep backend depth, and have shipped production systems people depend on.
• Have integrated and scaled many third-party APIs, and know how to handle latency, rate limits, and inconsistent data.
• Have built LLM features or agents used by real users, with tool calling, structured output, prompt and context design, and evals.
• Think in failure modes: retries, timeouts, idempotency, and what happens when the model is wrong.
• Care about product and UX as much as code: you notice small details and errors.
• Move fast, own outcomes, and are comfortable with ambiguity at an early-stage startup.

Nice to have:

• Travel technology: GDS, bed banks, NDC, hotel mapping, or booking engines
• Search systems and low-latency query infrastructure
• Browser automation (Playwright, Browserbase, Browser Use)
• Temporal or other durable workflows
• Stripe and payments, loyalty APIs, messaging APIs (iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp)
• AWS, Terraform, Cloudflare