Senior Software Engineer, Payments Team

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We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being 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. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies. 
At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.

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:

• 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.

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