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Staff Engineer, Commerce Platform

rover32 open roles

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Who we are

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

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 behind them.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona and remote locations. We have a reputation as a great place to work and are proud to be recognized as a top workplace in our area by respected business publications. 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.

About the Commerce Platform

  • Delivering a convenient, secure checkout and payout experience. We own the integrations with our payment service providers (including Stripe and PayPal), manage KYC verification, ensure PCI compliance, and continually improve the platform by expanding payment offerings, optimizing checkout flows, and improving the bottom line through high-impact projects
  • Owning the end-to-end transaction lifecycle. We maintain orders and line-item data, fees, credits, and promotions, and serve as the source of truth for what gets charged, credited, taxed, and paid out on the platform—including tax calculation and reporting across eligible jurisdictions
  • Ensuring accurate, audit-ready financial records. We run the reconciliation and reporting pipelines that keep month-end close clean and accurate, partnering closely with Rover's Finance & Accounting and FP&A teams as Rover grows internationally and adds new service lines

What you’ll do

  • Build a deep, working understanding of how money moves through Rover: orders, fees, credits, discounts, taxes, and payouts. Use those insights to catch risks and spot opportunities early
  • Set the technical direction for Rover’s transaction lifecycle, from how a booking becomes a charge to how a sitter gets paid, that every other product team builds against
  • Take on problems that arrive unscoped and cross team lines: a tax requirement in a new market, a new payment provider, a change to how Rover's fees work. Turn them into a plan others can align around
  • Work directly with Finance, Accounting, and Compliance to translate accounting and regulatory requirements into good system design
  • Raise the bar for how Rover builds financially trustworthy systems, through design review, code review, and patterns that teams outside Commerce Platform adopt
  • Move fluidly between hands-on work and mentorship. Raise the technical bar for engineers beyond your own team, and know when to step back and let others lead
  • Care that every owner is charged or refunded correctly for their stays and that their sitter gets paid the right amount on the right day.

Qualifications

  • Deep technical background with 8+ years of experience in software development best practices, system design, and architecture, with the technical range to work effectively across a modern web/mobile stack (e.g., Python, Django, Relational Databases, React, React Native)
  • Experience running cross-functional initiatives, influencing technical direction and roadmaps across teams, and building alignment across organizational boundaries
  • Proven ability to navigate complex, open-ended technical challenges across multi-system architectures, using strong engineering judgment to establish strategic direction
  • Experience leveraging AI and agentic coding tools to increase engineering velocity and raise the technical bar across engineering teams
  • Experience with large-scale, high-traffic consumer marketplace platforms; commerce, payments, or other finance-critical domain experience preferred
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including with senior leadership, stakeholders, and external partners
  • Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical interviewing efforts, including helping shape what the team looks for in candidates
  • Aligned with Rover Core Values

Benefits of working at Rover

  • Competitive compensation
  • 401k match
  • Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
  • Flexible PTO
  • Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
  • Pet benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog or cat
  • Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs), and free catered lunches monthly
  • Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually

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