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Staff Engineer, Payments Team

Leads technical vision and designs scalable payments, orders, and accounting systems. Collaborates across finance teams, mentors engineers, and works full-stack with 10+ years experience in Python and distributed systems.

182k – 242kSeattle, WABackend EngineeringHybrid10+ YOE

About the role

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.

Skills

PythonReactStripeBraintreePaypalRelational DatabasesDistributed SystemsSchema Design

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