Staff Engineer, Payments Team

About the role

The Payments team at Rover is dedicated to bringing a convenient, secure, and successful payments experience to our platform. This role is a Staff Engineer position within the Payments team.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

Pay

In the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $182,290-$260,000.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate.