Senior Software Engineer, Payments Team
Role summary
Rover is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Payments Team. This hybrid role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in professional software development, with a strong understanding of data-intensive application design and architecture. The engineer will contribute to building a robust payments platform, ensuring secure and timely transactions, and optimizing checkout flows. Responsibilities include analyzing production issues, driving projects from loose requirements, and working across the full stack (backend and frontend) on web and mobile applications. Proficiency in Python, familiarity with React, React Native, SQL, and relational databases are essential. Experience with large-scale consumer-facing websites and payments/finance systems is highly preferred.
Who we are:
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:
We are the Payments team 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 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:
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Enjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers.
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Are eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer.
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Are excited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.
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Are passionate about building a deep understanding of how Rover’s systems behave and use that insight to identify risks and opportunities.
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Analyze and understand production issues, dig into root causes, and make improvements to our systems.
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Are able to take loose requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done, and drive a project forward.
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Enjoy working across the backend and frontend on both web and mobile, developing software that interacts with other systems.
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Understand the needs of multiple stakeholders, from end users to internal teams such as tax and accounting.
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Have strong attention to detail and a desire to deeply understand complex technical systems.
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Get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment and your values align with Rover's Core Values
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Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers.
Your Qualifications:
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Minimum 5+ years experience as a professional software developer.
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Strong understanding of data-intensive application design and architecture principles.
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Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for debugging complex issues.
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Proficiency in working with Python.
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Familiarly with React and React Native.
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Familiarity with SQL.
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Familiarity with relational databases and schema design.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
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Effective communication on design/engineering trade-offs to product managers/designers.
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Intuition for when to call it "good enough", and when to put in the extra time to polish.
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Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
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Rigor, attention to detail, curiosity, and always asking Why?
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Experience with large-scale consumer-facing websites
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Bonus: Experience with large-scale orders and finance systems that handle money, payments, tax, checkout, etc.
Our Style:
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We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions.
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We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.
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We are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.
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We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.
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We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.
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We are passionate about data-driven decision-making.
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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.
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And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!
Benefits of Working at Rover.com