Technical Program Manager II, Developer Experience & Client Platform

BarcelonaEngineeringFull-time

In the posting€52K to €63K · period not statedfirst seen Oct 27, 2026posted Oct 26, 2026

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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.

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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.