Software Development Team Lead

With a robust multi year roadmap IDEXX has invested heavily in Veterinary Software, and we’re seeking a skilled Software Developer Team Lead  to join our Vello squad. Your focus will be delivering high quality solutions that overcome complex challenges related to our portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re looking for an ambitious technical expert to run point on a squad focused on specific products. Come help us push the boundaries of what veterinary software can do.

This role can be remote USA, remote Canada or based from our Westbrook, Maine office.

But what is Vello? Vello gives everything a vet needs to connect with their clients—all in one place. It streamlines the ways they engage with pet owners with a single experience built for IDEXX PIMS. With software-supported engagement across the life stages of a pet, pet owners become informed partners in care—supporting better health outcomes. Vello is built on AWS with a cloud-native approach. We use Lambda for serverless computing, TypeScript for development, and combines DynamoDB with Postgres RDS for data management. ECS containers handle deployment, scalability & performance.

Within IDEXX we are a part of the IDEXX Veterinary Software portfolio. With a focus on software solutions, we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, our solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

What your day might look like:

• Create technical design documentation
• Build large scale or complex projects that are fit for purpose and achieve the desired result
• Build code that is beautifully crafted, highly scalable, and maintainable
• Monitor, evaluate and improve projects as they are released (agile)
• Write well crafted unit tests
• Provide senior code reviews to ensure code that is released is robust and does not break  
• Refactor the low-level framework objects to improve the performance and scalability of our platforms
• Contribute to high level tech stack related discussions and aid in driving our application forward
• Be a role model that junior and intermediate engineers can look up to for guidance
• Lead collaboration with cross functional teams to better understand the broader aspects of our portfolio and collectively solve the challenges of scale

What you need to succeed:

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer – this role will manage a team but also be hands on with the tools 
• Proven technical capability with software design
• Experience leading technical advancements to solve problems
• Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies
• Previous experience in SaaS environment
• Experience with any of the following would be beneficial but not required, Typescript, Go, AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Node/Next.js, React, React Native, MySQL or other OOP languages.
• Experience with unit testing
• Strong OO design patterns, modular design 
• Experience building and consuming APIs (JSON, SOAP) 

What you can expect from us

• Competitive Compensation
• Opportunity for annual equity award
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
• 5% matching 401k

Additional benefits include but are not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!

Why IDEXX

We’re proud of the work we do because our work matters. An innovation expert in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Core Values to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and over 10,000 talented employees globally.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be motivated by generous compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values diversity and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ persons, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.

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