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# Technical Program Manager II, Developer Experience & Client Platform at Rover.com

- **Company:** Rover.com
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/rover/caab98ea-622d-4823-8fd2-1b3ee0856b0e

## Job description

Who we are: At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

Your responsibilities:

- Develop the roadmap for your programs with the engineering managers leading these teams, turning their priorities into a plan with clear objectives, sequencing, and measures of success.
- Drive that plan through to delivery: run the cadence, keep dependencies visible, identify risks early, and drive them to resolution or escalate with clarity and context when you can’t.
- Lead the highest-impact initiatives across Developer Experience and Client Platform, including the work that falls between the two teams, coordinating with the teams that depend on them.
- Communicate change across the makers who depend on these platforms, from engineers to PMs, designers, and analysts, covering what is shipping, what is coming, and how teams should plan around it. Drive adoption of what these teams build, not just delivery of it.
- Aggregate what makers actually need. Run the feedback loops with developers and other internal users, turn dense, messy input into a prioritized recommendation, and lead the process that gets the engineering managers to a decision on where to invest.
- Surface duplication and help drive consolidation. As the organization builds quickly, find where the same capability is being built more than once, make the case for a single, better version, and work with the teams to get there.
- Define and report the metrics that tell us whether these platforms are working: adoption, cycle time, release health, developer satisfaction. Do your own data discovery to find the signal rather than waiting for a dashboard to be handed to you.
- Keep programs legible and the teams running well: maintain the project plans, status updates, and documentation others can actually find and use, and propose the process changes that fix inefficiencies you see across your teams and their partners.

Your qualifications:

- 4-6 years driving technical projects and programs in a platform, developer tooling, or client engineering context.
- Experience delivering platforms or internal tooling where your users are other builders, including driving adoption of what you ship with engineering users.
- Technical fluency across developer tooling and client delivery (CI/CD, development environments, mobile release paths, web platforms and edge routing, shared client libraries), with the judgment to pressure-test plans alongside engineers, catch dependency risk early, and drive it to resolution.
- Experience aggregating needs across many teams into a clear recommendation, and guiding teams to a decision on what to build, what to skip, and where adoption will come from. This includes naming duplication when two teams have built the same thing and making the case for one.
- Experience communicating technical change across a broad internal audience of engineers, PMs, designers, and analysts, covering not just what is changing now but what is coming and how teams should plan around it.
- Strong program management fundamentals: standing up plans and status processes, defining the metrics that measure success, and escalating with clarity when something needs attention. You source your own data rather than waiting for a dashboard.
- Practical, hands-on experience applying AI to your own work, with a clear point of view on where it creates leverage and where it doesn’t.

You won’t check every box on this list, and that’s okay. If most of it sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

## Nice to have

- Experience with mobile release management or modern client architecture, such as React Native, Next.js, design systems, or edge platforms like Cloudflare.
- Exposure to AI-native engineering tooling, such as coding agents or MCP integrations.
- Experience working across European and US teams in a globally distributed organization.

Benefits of working at Rover:

- Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
- Pension plan
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days PTO
- Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)
- Gym membership
- €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet
- Annual €150 wellness reimbursement
- Flexible work hours, sometimes you’ll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we’re pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time
- Grab snacks and fresh fruit in our kitchen to keep yourself going
- Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
- Dog-friendly office

Compensation:

- In the greater Barcelona area the first-year salary range is €51,837 - €62,832. Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.
- The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

## About Rover.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rover.com operates a global marketplace connecting pet parents with trusted pet sitters, dog walkers, groomers, and trainers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Blackstone Inc. in 2024; previously public under ticker ROVR)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (with offices in Barcelona, London, and remote hubs)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Greg Gottesman, Aaron Easterly, Philip Kimmey

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Pet care services marketplace
- **Target customers**: B2C – pet parents (owners of dogs and cats) seeking boarding, walking, daycare, sitting, training, and grooming
- **Mission**: To make it easier for people to experience the unconditional love of a pet by providing trusted, high-quality pet care

## Products & Services
- **Rover Marketplace (Platform)**: Online and mobile marketplace for booking pet sitters, dog walkers, pet boarding, doggy daycare, drop-in visits, house sitting, dog training, and grooming. Features include in-app messaging, photo sharing, reviews, background checks, and the Rover Guarantee/accident cover.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Blackstone in 2024; prior public market cap varied)
- **Key Metric**: $174 million annual revenue (latest available); total funding of $2.9 billion across 13 rounds prior to acquisition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackstone Inc. (owner), Greylock, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, T. Rowe Price
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 18 countries across North America and Western Europe; over 12 million pets cared for; 41 million services booked (cumulative); 4.9/5 average sitter rating; workforce of 7,301 employees across 29 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-to-market pet care marketplace** – first major platform of its kind, with strong brand recognition and scale.
- **Trust & Safety infrastructure** – background checks or ID verification for sitters, verified reviews, Meet & Greets, and the Rover Guarantee/accident cover.
- **Large, engaged supply side** – thousands of independent pet sitters and walkers, enabling broad geographic coverage.
- **Loyalty and repeat usage** – high average sitter rating (4.9/5) drives trust and retention.

## Strategic Focus
- **International expansion** – growing presence in Europe (e.g., Spain, UK, France) and ongoing market penetration.
- **Product innovation** – expanding service types (dog training, grooming) and enhancing the platform with AI-powered matching and safety tools.
- **Building a premium experience** – high-quality, personalized care offerings and deepened pet parent/sitter relationships.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Dog-friendly offices, inclusive environment with five Employee Resource Groups (Gender Equity in Action, Pride, Rover Military Community, BARKS for BIPOC, MIND for neurodiversity). Company values ownership, transparency, and work-life balance.  
- **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in Seattle and Barcelona, plus remote roles across the US and Europe. Engineering roles often based in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, London.  
- **Perks**: $1,000 adoption/foster assistance, pet staycation coverage, stocked offices, company lunches, competitive benefits (medical/dental/vision, 401k match, 4 weeks+ PTO, 11 paid holidays, 10 weeks fully paid parental leave). Barcelona office offers meal vouchers, wellness reimbursement, and 25 days PTO.  
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on data and software engineering across multiple levels; involvement in platform reliability, backend platform, and data infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [rover.com/careers](https://www.rover.com/careers)
2. [jobs.lever.co/rover](https://jobs.lever.co/rover)
3. [rover.com/about-us](https://www.rover.com/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/roverdotcom](https://linkedin.com/company/roverdotcom)
5. [rover.com/careers/perks-and-culture](https://www.rover.com/careers/perks-and-culture)

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