*This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office one day per week on Thursdays.
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 technical stack, both frontend and backend.
- Understand the needs of multiple stakeholders, from end users to internal teams such as tax and accounting
- 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 2-3 years experience as a professional software developer.
- Proficiency in working with Python.
- Familiarity with SQL.
- Familiarity with relational databases and schema design.
- 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 using 3rd party payment processors APIs like Stripe, Braintree, or Paypal.
- Bonus: Hands-on experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks
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
Compensation: - In the greater Seattle area the first year salary range is $118,476-152,686.. Additionally, Rover offers benefits to full-time employees.
- The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.