Rover.com · 2 months ago
Staff Engineer, Payments Team
Rover.com is a company dedicated to connecting pet owners with trusted pet sitters and dog walkers. The Staff Engineer on the Payments Team will influence the technical vision and design impactful changes to the payments, orders, and accounting systems, ensuring a seamless payments experience for customers and providers.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience using 3rd party payment processors APIs like Stripe, Braintree, or Paypal
Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks
Experience designing and/or building accounting or payment processing systems
Benefits
401k match
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
Company
Rover.com
At Rover, everyone has ownership of their work and the opportunity to make a true impact.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$360.9MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceSilicon Valley BankSpark Capital
2023-11-29Acquired
2021-08-02Post Ipo Equity· $50M
2021-08-02IPO
Leadership Team
Recent News
2025-10-28
San Diego Union-Tribune
2025-10-27
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