Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Destination Pet. We are One Pack- a united team working together to elevate the love and lives of pet families. Our pet-obsessed professionals create a connected care network of trustworthy partners who bring creative innovation every day. We are revolutionizing the pet industry. Join us!

Our IT team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with full stack experience in Vue.js and developing APIs. This role will provide key software development and solution design to the Destination Pet IT team. Full Stack Developers focus on developing integrations between Snowflake and enterprise software products such as Workday, WorkJam, Marketo and Agilence. They also support in-house web applications that provide centralized data access to Operations, IT, HR and Marketing teams. They enhance and maintain these web application, written in Vue.js, and develop server-less microservices and APIs that provide business logic on the backend. As part of our IT team, engineers use state-of-the-art tools and technologies to deliver exceptional user experience to our team members, customers and pets. Engineers must be located in and authorized to work in the US. We will not provide Visa sponsorship. Remote engineers must be able to work during regular US business hours; and must be able to regularly participate on calls via Teams or available to other team members via Teams.

We are looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to our team!  

LOCATION: Remote 

REPORTS TO: Director of Applications  

PAY: $135,000 - $165,000 dependent on experience  

CORE RESPONSIBILITES:  

• Work with engineering and business partners to define and build out complex solutions driving value through business process automation and new product capabilities and innovations. 

• Lead solution development end-to-end for new innovations with iterative improvements. 

• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development. 

• Develop architectures that scale well, can be maintained responsively and efficiently, and follow many other enterprise best practices. 

• Document software designs, objectives, and create and respond to RFCs in a shared collaboration environment such as Confluence. 

• Develop business logic to empower our web and mobile applications via RESTful APIs. 

• Design and develop services in a serverless AWS architecture to maintain modularity, performance, security, development efficiency and enhancements 

• Participate application design and design services that support those applications. 

• Work in an agile development environment, maintaining user story and task status, t-shirt sizing. 

• Respond to bugs and support issues to ensure web users are delighted to use our applications. 

• Conduct code reviews, create pull requests, respond to peer and manager feedback to improve source code, designs and deliverables. 

• Communicate on all open projects and give updates to both team members and Technology team staff. 

  

REQUIREMENTS:  

Education & Experience:  

• 5+ years commercial software development – Typescript, Javacript, Java, C#, Scala, python, Go 

• 3+ years developing service-oriented applications 

• 1+ year reactive web development in Vue, React, or Angular 

• Strong command of SQL and MySQL 

• Led multiple software development initiatives to deliver projects and products to production 

• Proficient with git, branch development, pull requests 

• Proficient with agile Scrum, Azure DevOps or Jira 

  

Skills:  

• Experience developing RESTful APIs and AWS Lambda 

• Ability to learn quickly, self-starter, manage multiple projects, meet deadlines and communicate accurate status, dependencies, requirements and projected delivery times 

  

Additional Preferred Skills:  

• API Gateway, SQS, S3 and other AWS services 

• AWS Certified Solution Architect or AWS Certified Developer 

• Snowflake and FiveTran 

• Extra credit for veterinary and pet resort management software, such as Cornerstone, AviMark, Datapoint, Gingr, KennelConnection 

Other:  

• Travel is not required 

• Learn quickly, self-starter, take direction well 

• Exceptional troubleshooting skills, detail orientated 

• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines 

• Must be able to work in front of a computer for long periods of time 

• Remote engineers must be able to work during regular US business hours; and must be able to regularly participate on calls via Teams or available to other team members via Teams. 

  

PERKS: 

• Health, vision, dental, long & short-term disability, and Life insurance 

• A Startup mentality company with stable funding 

• 401k match  

• Pet Care discounts  

• Flexible Time Off 

• Opportunity to grow your career with a network of like-minded professionals 

 

 

Destination Pet LLC affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
Destination Pet LLC endeavors to make our employment website and application process accessible to all users and applicants. In doing so, we provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation or assistance completing the application process, please contact a member of our recruitment team.
 
At Destination Pet, we're all about creating a workplace that's bursting with diversity and inclusivity. We don't play favorites or judge folks based on skin color, religion, gender, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics. Our hiring decisions are solely based on what you can bring to the team. So, we're throwing the door wide open for all like-minded candidates who believe in celebrating and honoring diversity and inclusion. Ready to join our pack?