Senior Software Engineer at Vetcove

Join our growing team at Vetcove, and help us transform how veterinarians buy the supplies they need to keep America’s pets healthy. Vetcove’s eCommerce and mobile platforms enable veterinary practices to compare and buy from all of their vendors in one place. Our community of more than 17,000 veterinary hospitals employs tens of thousands of veterinarians, and delivers care to many millions of animals every year across all 50 states.

We’re a growing team on a mission to modernize the $50B+ animal health industry. Simply put, Vetcove helps veterinary organizations spend more time giving care, and less time shopping and comparing across vendors to supply their practices. Vetcove is a Y Combinator and venture‑backed growth stage company with notable investors in Silicon Valley and NYC.

The Software Engineer is a key member of our engineering team, responsible for supporting projects from conception to completion. This includes plan formulation, creation, maintenance, and upgrade implementations across most of the technology stack. As a contributor to the core features of the Vetcove platform, you will be integral to ensuring we create intuitive and innovative products that our users need for day‑to‑day success.

We believe every engineer at Vetcove should have a holistic view of the company and work on many areas of our technology stack. We encourage you to help grow a system that facilitates billions of dollars in orders each year, moving quickly in an industry that was previously slow to adopt technology. As Vetcove expands its offerings, we’re growing our engineering team to keep pace with rapid business expansion while maintaining exceptional code quality and system integrity.

You’ll work closely with end users, handle large‑scale infrastructure challenges, and everything in between.

• Real‑time analytics platform to display billions of dollars in purchase history
• Dynamic advertising platform that gives away millions of dollars in cash‑back rewards to clinics
• Mobile shopping experience that lets clinics shop using their phone’s camera
• Foundation for a modern architecture to support seamless interactivity between several major features

• Contribute to conceptualization and feature documentation of new ideas and product enhancements
• Build and extend interactive React applications used by tens of thousands of veterinary purchasers, corporate hospital group owners, and animal health manufacturers
• Add good test coverage
• Build reusable components for use by the larger team
• Implement new features into our React Native applications
• Work directly with our CTO and engineering team, and across other functions to continuously evolve our platform and products

• 2 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably building web applications
• High proficiency in at least one industry‑common language and a desire to improve other languages
• Experience building a successful production application in a modern web framework
• Ability to design new features around data models with accuracy, security, and performance in mind
• Experience working with a database and analyzing queries for optimizations
• Fluency with JavaScript’s prototyped and functional language features
• Good software testing habits
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt quickly and manage many concurrent responsibilities
• A strong desire to help our customers succeed
• A positive attitude and one‑for‑all team mentality
• Experience working with a backend language, an ORM, and writing API endpoints
• Startup work experience is a plus

• Backend:
  Python (Django, Django Rest Framework)
• Frontend:
  JavaScript (React, Redux), Less.js, Typescript, Webpack
• Data stores:
  Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis
• Mobile:
  React Native
• Version Control:
  Git

• 100% remote within the USA
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Automatic 401k contribution
• Employee referral program
• At‑home office set up
• Bi‑annual company retreats
• Open vacation policy
• Equity
• Monthly team events

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is: $115,000/year –…