# Staff Engineer, Payments Team
**Company:** [Rover](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rover)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $182K-$242K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, React, Stripe, Braintree, Paypal, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Schema Design
**Posted:** 2025-11-05
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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.
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