[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Vetcove

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at Vetcove, you’ll take ownership of major product areas—designing, building, and improving the tools that help veterinary clinics streamline operations, deliver exceptional patient care, and optimize their supply chains. The systems you create will manage billions of dollars in transactions and empower clinics to focus on their patients, not their logistics.

This isn’t just another engineering job—it’s a chance to tackle meaningful challenges and make a real-world impact. You’ll be involved in everything:

• Deciding what to build
• Designing how it works
• Ensuring it gets into the hands of users seamlessly

If you thrive on solving hard problems and creating tools that matter, this role is for you!

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of complex product initiatives across web and mobile platforms
• Build and enhance React and React Native applications used by tens of thousands of veterinary professionals and industry partners
• Set engineering standards, drive code quality, and ensure strong test coverage across the codebase
• Develop scalable components, shared libraries, and architectural patterns that support team-wide productivity
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and influence engineering direction across multiple teams
• Partner closely with our CTO, engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute high-impact solutions
• Design features and data models with accuracy, security, and performance in mind, including optimizing database queries and API interactions
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the stack and lead efforts to improve system performance and reliability
• Work in a fully remote team environment

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade systems
• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Deep expertise in at least one modern programming language and strong experience with modern web frameworks
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and React, including architecting large-scale front-end applications
• Proven ability to design scalable systems, APIs, and data models
• Solid experience working with relational databases and optimizing queries
• Consistent practice of writing well-tested, maintainable, and reliable code
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical decision-making
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly
• Collaborative, adaptable, and effective in fast-paced or evolving environments

Tools We Use

• Backend: Python (Django, Django Rest Framework)
• Frontend: JavaScript (React, React-Query), Less.js, TypeScript
• Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Clickhouse
• Mobile: React Native
• Version Control: Git

Benefits

• 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: $170,000/year - $300,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits.

For Colorado, the salary range is: $190,000 - $280,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

To apply, please submit your application through Vetcove’s Careers Page. The application deadline is accepted on an ongoing basis.