# Director of Software Engineering, Earn at Rove

- Company: Rove (YC W24)
- What the company does: Travel the world for free. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://rove.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove/jobs/vP4uBsS-director-of-software-engineering-earn
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rove-director-of-software-engineering-earn/

## About the role

A Director of Software Engineering at Rove will lead the engineering strategy, execution, and technical architecture behind Rove’s shopping and dining products. This role will be focused on the earn side of the program, responsible for building the systems that let users earn Rove Miles across thousands of merchants, card-linked offers, dining partners, gift cards, browser extension experiences, merchant onboarding, personalized offers, direct merchant integrations, attribution flows, transaction tracking, rewards...

## What they're looking for

- Lead engineering for Rove Shopping and Rove Dining across web, mobile, card-linking, backend, browser extension, merchant onboarding, partner integrations, and internal tooling
- Own the technical architecture for merchant feeds, offer ingestion, attribution, click tracking, transaction tracking, rewards calculation, reversals, personalized offer delivery, and user-facing earning experiences
- Build and scale direct merchant integrations, affiliate network integrations, card-linked offer platforms, dining networks, payment partners, merchant partners, and loyalty infrastructure providers
- Develop Rove’s merchant onboarding portal, enabling merchants to launch offers, manage campaigns, review performance, configure rewards, and integrate directly with Rove
- Build systems for personalized offers, including targeting, segmentation, offer ranking, experimentation, eligibility rules, and performance optimization
- Develop reliable systems for transaction lifecycle management, including pending miles, confirmed miles, reversals, merchant exclusions, missing miles claims, and customer support workflows

Tags: Engineering