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Salary: USD 260,000 - 350,000 / annual
Hover is a property technology company that uses proprietary AI and real property data to help homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals create fully measured, accurate, and interactive 3D models of properties from smartphone scans. The company is backed by Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders including Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide.
As Director of Engineering, Mobile Capture, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the mobile experience that captures property data in the field. You will oversee a team of engineers and engineering managers who own Hover's mobile capture experience across iOS, Android, and React Native platforms. Your role bridges technical leadership with product strategy, requiring partnership with Product and Design from the earliest stages.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading mobile engineering teams and managing engineering managers across multiple teams
- Setting technical direction for mobile product development, balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural investment
- Owning mobile application development across iOS, Android, and React Native
- Leading camera-based and sensor-driven capture, 3D scanning, and measurement workflows
- Overseeing property inspection, damage documentation, and photo organization features
- Ensuring mobile performance, stability, thermal and battery behavior, and offline reliability
- Establishing release quality, observability, testing, and operational health practices
- Defining mobile architecture, developer infrastructure, and reusable capture SDKs
- Shaping the boundary between shared capture infrastructure, reusable components, and individual product experiences as workflows multiply
- Building observability to understand real-world device behavior in the field
- Hiring, developing, and retaining engineering leaders and senior technical talent
- Contributing to company-wide engineering strategy and investment decisions
You will be a senior member of the Engineering leadership team, helping decide where the company invests and how its technology evolves. The role requires genuine interest in interaction design and user experience, with a track record of partnering with Product and Design as a peer.
Hover operates hybrid offices in San Francisco and New York City. Employees living within 50 miles of either office are expected to come in at least three times per week. The company is not currently considering fully remote roles.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Leading mobile engineering organizations, including managing engineering managers or multiple teams
- Strong technical foundation in mobile engineering with depth to evaluate architecture, challenge technical decisions, and coach senior engineers
- Experience operating mobile applications at meaningful scale, with working knowledge of mobile architecture, performance, networking, concurrency, storage, instrumentation, testing, and release engineering
- Genuine interest in interaction design and user experience, with a track record of partnering with Product and Design as a peer
- Track record of improving reliability and engineering quality in complex or mature systems
- Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineering leaders and senior technical talent, including setting and holding a high performance bar
- Clear communication and ability to create alignment across teams working on interconnected systems
NICE-TO-HAVES:
- Computer vision or ML-enabled mobile products, or spatial computing (ARKit, ARCore, LiDAR, RoomPlan)
- 3D reconstruction, photogrammetry, or camera and video processing pipelines
- Applications built for technicians, inspectors, or other field users
- Insurance, construction, property technology, or inspection workflows
- Large-file upload systems, offline-first applications, or mobile SDK development
