FullStack Engineer

Meet Instinct 👋

Instinct Science is an animal health software company that helps the world’s leading veterinary practices deliver exceptional patient care, improve staff efficiency, and minimize team stress and burnout. Our easytouse EMR platform acts as the nerve center for veterinarians, veterinary nurses, and support staff alike, fostering seamless collaboration across teams. With our January 2024 acquisition of VetMedux, a company providing trusted education (Clinician’s Brief) and clinical decision support (Standards of Care™, Plumbs) for veterinarians, Instinct has strengthened our commitment to delivering the missioncritical tools veterinary practices need to care for their patients at the highest level and with the best outcomes.

We’re fueled by compassion! Our team, our customers, and their patients and animal owners matter immensely to us. We put the Customer First; Act with Grace, Not Teeth; Do the Right Things for the Right Reasons; and know that Excellence is in our DNA.

If these values speak to you, you might be a good fit for our FullStack Engineer opening.

A Sneak Peek of Your Role 🔭
This job, and the team at Instinct, is remote.

As a FullStack Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and developing modern veterinary software that serves thousands of users in animal hospitals across the globe. Engineers in this role often take ownership of projects and have the ability to take on larger and more complex features and bugs. You will work closely with a small, crossfunctional, highlycollaborative team to deliver quality software that solves real problems for our customers. Our teams have a deep understanding of their domains and work to deliver value with minimal overhead. We prize excellence, creativity, and accountability and in return provide autonomy and an environment to do your best work.

What You’ll Do 🐱‍💻

• Own software projects from scoping to release
• Design efficient, reliable and scalable solutions
• Build software using Elixir, React and associated technologies
• Collaborate with product, engineering and QA teammates to deliver quality software in a timely manner
• Research and solve complex customer issues
• Keep uptodate with and lead conversations around industry best practices for design, development, unit testing and other aspects of software engineering

• Who You Are 🐱‍💻

  • Must Haves:
    • 3+ years of experience building modern SaaS applications
    • Knowledge of both backend and frontend development languages
    • Ability to break complex problems into actionable and efficient work
    • Teamfirst attitude, including a strong desire to mentor teammates and build effective, lightweight work patterns
    • Strong communication skills in a remote work environment
    • Commitment to quality driven by empathy for our customers and their patients
    • Detailoriented and organized in your work
    • • NicetoHaves:
        • Knowledge of Elixir or Erlang for backend development
        • Knowledge of Typescript and React for frontend development
        • Experience using AWS to build, deploy and troubleshoot applications
        • Proven experience with relational databases, including using good design patterns and building and tuning efficient queriesdata access

        • • How Instinct will Care about YOU 🌞

            • We offer a supportive and caring work environment.
            • We are transparent, open, honest, and empathic, both internally and externally.
            • We pay our team well.
            • We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and 401K with match.
            • We give our team ownerlike flexibility over work and timeoff, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays.
            • We offer a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work.
            • We offer an incentive bonus plan that recognizes your contribution to Instinct’s success.
            • We provide allexpensepaid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat.

            • Base Compensation range for this role is $120,000 $140,000

              Instinct is an equal opportunity employer committed to equality and providing a pleasant work environment free from harassment or discrimination in any form. All employees will be treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, ancestry, veteran, or disability status.

              If you require accommodations throughout any part of the preemployment process, please contact our People team at [email protected]