Staff Engineer, Payments Team

About the role

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we're a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We're investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. 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. Meet the Payments team: The Payments team is dedicated to bringing a convenient, secure, and successful payments experience to Rover customers on our platform. Our team's directives are to: - Provide a robust payments platform to support business growth - we continue to improve our platform by expanding our payment offerings, optimizing checkout flows, and reducing our bottom line expenses with high-impact and high-visibility projects. - Ensure customers can easily checkout and that providers get paid promptly - we own the integrations with our payment service providers, ensure PCI compliance, and provide a great customer experience for all the money that flows through our marketplace, including payins & payouts. - Ensure financial transaction completeness, accuracy, and auditability. At Rover, we're driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, while doing our jobs better than ever before. We believe the best business outcomes come from a diverse set of perspectives and we're committed to promoting an inclusive, inventive, and fun environment with amazing employees. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Rover is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, military or veteran status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, genetic predisposition, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.

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