Staff Engineer, Payments Team

Responsibilities

• Influence and lead long-term technical vision and roadmap in partnership with senior management.
• Design and lead complex and impactful changes to payments, orders, and accounting systems with 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Enjoy working across the technical stack, both frontend and backend.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience using 3rd party payment processors APIs like Stripe, Braintree, or Paypal.
• Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience designing and/or building accounting or payment processing systems.

Compensation

In the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $182,290-$242,446. Additionally, Rover offers benefits to full-time employees including 401k match, long-term incentive plan, flexible PTO, competitive benefits package, commuter benefits, pet benefits, and more.