# Staff Engineer, Commerce Platform at Rover

- Company: Rover
- What the company does: Backed by Madrona and Menlo.
- Company website: https://rover.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $182K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/rover/861c2f1c-6586-40b6-87b8-4140c9379780
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rover-staff-engineer-commerce-platform/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering