Meet the Payments team:
The Payments team is dedicated to bringing a convenient, secure, and successful payments experience to Rover customers on our platform. Our team's directives are to:
- Provide a robust payments platform to support business growth - we continue to improve our platform by expanding our payment offerings, optimizing checkout flows, and reducing our bottom line expenses with high-impact and high-visibility projects.
- Ensure customers can easily checkout and that providers get paid promptly - we own the integrations with our payment service providers, ensure PCI compliance, and provide a great customer experience for all the money that flows through our marketplace, including payins & payouts.
- Ensure financial transaction completeness, accuracy, and auditability.
*This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office one day per week on Thursdays.
As a Staff Engineer You Will:- Influence and lead our long-term technical vision and roadmap in partnership with senior management.
- Design and lead complex and impactful changes to our payments, orders, and accounting systems with long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind.
- Work across multiple teams in the finance space.
- Directly influence the customer experience.
- Work with stakeholders from accounting, finance, tax, product and design to drive technical decisions and improve processes.
- Mentor engineers to help grow and advance their careers.
- Drive best practices across the finance organization and the company.
We're Looking for Engineers Who:- Enjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers.
- Enjoy taking on the new challenges that arise as the company grows.
- Are eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer.
- Are excited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.
- Are passionate about building a deep understanding of how Rover's systems behave and use that insight to identify risks and opportunities.
- Are able to take loose requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
- Enjoy working across the technical stack, both frontend and backend.
- Understand the needs of multiple stakeholders, from end users to internal teams such as tax and accounting
- Get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment and your values align with Rover's Core Values
- Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers.
Your Qualifications:- 10+ years experience as a professional software developer.
- Experience with Python.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, reliable services, and distributed systems.
- Experience creating and driving complex technical designs and processes across multiple teams.
- Expertise with databases, ideally relational databases and schema design.
- Experience translating ambiguous requirements into technical solutions.
- Experience owning and delivering large-scale business initiatives.
- Experience with large-scale consumer-facing websites.
- Bonus: Experience using 3rd party payment processors APIs like Stripe, Braintree, or Paypal.
- Bonus: Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks
- Bonus: Experience designing and/or building accounting or payment processing systems.
Our Style:- We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions.
- We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.
- We are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.
- We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.
- We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
- We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.
- We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.
- And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!
Benefits of Working at Rover.com - Competitive compensation
- 401k
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
- Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
- Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly
- Regular team activities performed in person and virtually
Compensation: - In the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $182,290-$242,446. Additionally, Rover offers 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.