Technical Program Manager II, Developer Experience & Client Platform

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.

Who we are looking for:

• Every feature Rover ships travels the same path: the environment an engineer builds in, the CI that verifies high quality, the design system it’s assembled from, and the release that puts it in front of pet parents and pet service providers. Two teams own that path: Developer Experience and Client Platform. Their vision is to make development faster, more reliable, and less painful for all makers.
• As the TPM supporting these teams, your role is to help them deliver that vision. You’ll join Rover’s Technical Program Management team, a small and growing function that sits at the center of how engineering delivers complex, cross-functional work. TPMs here own how programs get executed, drive alignment across organizational boundaries, and bring structured thinking to the hardest problems on the roadmap.
• Your focus is the platforms Rover’s engineers build on. On the Developer Experience side, that means the environments, tooling, and pipelines engineers work in every day, including the AI-native tooling that is quickly becoming the center of how work gets done here. On the Client Platform side, it means the shared foundations of our web and mobile apps: the mobile frameworks and release infrastructure, our Next.js web platform, the design system used across every platform, and much of our Cloudflare routing.
• What connects the two is that both teams build capabilities for makers. Their customers are internal: engineers today, and increasingly designers, PMs, and analysts who now build with AI too. So the hardest part of this job isn’t tracking the work; it’s helping make sure it’s the right work. You’ll aggregate needs across a large, fast-moving engineering organization, separate real friction from loud friction, and, critically, spot duplication. When teams quietly build their own versions of the same capability, you’re the person who notices, names it, and works with the teams involved to get to one.
• You’ll bring the technical fluency to be a real partner to engineering, not just following a plan but pressure-testing it: reading a dependency chain, spotting gaps and risks early, then driving them to resolution. You’ll develop the roadmap for your programs in partnership with the engineering managers leading these teams, and lead the highest-impact initiatives across both teams, including the work that falls between them. At Rover, that means working fluidly across Barcelona, Seattle, and the remote engineers in between.
• That extends to how you use AI yourself. We’re looking for someone who has gone past experimenting and is using these tools to change how their own work actually happens: synthesizing large volumes of stakeholder input, automating the recurring overhead of running a program, building workflows that save their teams time. What matters isn’t how many tools you’ve tried; it’s your point of view on where they create real leverage and where they don’t.
• This is a role for someone who is energized by making other builders faster and measured by whether they actually adopt what you ship, who moves easily between technical detail and organizational alignment, and who brings order to complexity without adding bureaucracy.