Our Company is a rapidly growing, venture-backed veterinary emergency company with hospital locations across the USA. We are profitable (Over $500 Million in revenue annually), doubling our size every year, and supported by a multi-billion-dollar investor. Our mission is to help people and their pets when they need it most. We are changing the face of emergency veterinary medicine with a "customer first" mentality.
THE ROLE'S MISSION
This role will lead part of the team that is building our custom-built PIMS (Practice Information Management System). Just like there are other generic veterinary hospitals out there, there are several generic PIMS that our thousands of front-line staff (doctors, nurses, and support staff) could be forced to use. However, our hospitals only do emergency work and needed a PIMS that only does emergency. By building continuously improving and scaling our system, our team is providing our staff with software that is as reliable and as easy to use as a stethoscope.
WHO YOU NEED TO BE
If you are a problem solver, and a team player, have excellent communication skills, and truly understand Python, Postgres, and back-end development, you're who we are looking for. We want teammates who enjoy the challenge of taking a problem and finding the simplest solution. We want someone we enjoy talking to in our daily scrum and follow-up meetings. We like reviewing code that is easy to understand and that we know is validated with a complete but concise set of automated tests.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
You're going to code... a lot. All of our engineers love our QA team, but we like to leave the manual testing to them. We write code to solve our staff's problems, but we aren't scratching manual tests off of a notepad to make sure our solutions are complete. We write automated tests to ensure that those problems never come back,
You'll be in meetings, but not a ton. We're an agile team, but we try to minimize the meetings so engineers have more time to code. We block off an hour a day for the "ceremony" around our process, but our scrum and its spin-off meetings rarely take up that full hour. There will be the occasional meeting outside of that hour block, typically to work with product, design, and QA to help define potential solutions to problems. As the backend lead, you'll have a few more meetings than non-leads, but you'll still get a lot of time for individual work.
We want our team lead to be near the team so everyone can learn from you, so we do ask that you come into our White Plains office 2-3 times per week. If our engineers (and their pets) are lucky enough to live near one of our hospitals, they often work remotely from there. Occasionally there's a fun team trip to a new hospital that just came These hospital visits help us observe problems (and solutions) firsthand and get a better understanding of what our front-line staff need, and generally just know how they do what they do. The free snacks in the break room are a nice bonus.
WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE
We hire the best of the best. It is essential that you have expert-level knowledge of Computer Science and an advanced coding skill set.
7-10 years of experience in the software industry, 3+ years as a lead
Python expertise
Postgres expertise
Automated Testing / Pytest expertise
AWS expertise
Cypress is a plus
React.JS is a plus
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Great base salary of $200,000 - $250,000 + Bonus
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits beginning day 1 of employment!
401K with company match.
10 weeks of parental leave with 100% pay.
Unlimited PTO.
Company laptop and a monthly cell phone reimbursement.
Casual office attire, dog friendly, and a kitchen full of snacks and beverages!
Opportunity to grow and so much more!
Flexible hybrid work environment (3 days a week in the office, White Plains)