Staff Engineer, Payments Team

Join Rover's Payments team and make an impact on the business and our customers. As a Staff Engineer, you will design and lead complex changes to our payments, orders, and accounting systems, influence and lead our long-term technical vision and roadmap, and mentor engineers to help grow and advance their careers. We're looking for engineers who enjoy taking on new challenges, are eager to learn and improve their craft, and are passionate about building a deep understanding of how Rover's systems behave.

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
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401k match
• 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