Senior Software Engineer, Payments Team

Team: Engineering

Location: Seattle

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

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.

• 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 pay and 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.

We’re looking for engineers who:

• Enjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers.

• Are eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer.

• Are excited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.

• Are passionate about building a deep understanding of how Rover’s systems behave and use that insight to identify risks and opportunities.

• Analyze and understand production issues, dig into root causes, and make improvements to our systems.

• Are able to take loose requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.

• Enjoy working across the backend and frontend on both web and mobile, developing software that interacts with other systems.

• Understand the needs of multiple stakeholders, from end users to internal teams such as tax and accounting. 

• Have strong attention to detail and a desire to deeply understand complex technical systems.

• Get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment and your values align with Rover's Core Values

• Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers.

Your Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years experience as a professional software developer.

• Strong understanding of data-intensive application design and architecture principles.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for debugging complex issues.

• Proficiency in working with Python.

• Familiarly with React and React Native.

• Familiarity with SQL.

• Familiarity with relational databases and schema design.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment

• Effective communication on design/engineering trade-offs to product managers/designers.

• Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish.

• Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices

• Rigor, attention to detail, curiosity, and always asking Why?

• Experience with large-scale consumer-facing websites

• Bonus: Experience with large-scale orders and finance systems that handle money, payments, tax, checkout, etc.

Our Style:

• We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions.

• We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.

• We are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.

• We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.

• We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.

• We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.

• We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.

• And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits of Working at Rover.com

• Competitive compensation

• 401k

• 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