Software Engineer
About the role
Software Engineer role at Vetcove, a YC-backed animal health eCommerce platform. Remote (US) full-time position focusing on building and extending the platform across frontend and backend stacks, with emphasis on React/React Native, Python (Django), and delivering scalable features for veterinary purchasers and manufacturers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the 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 groups, owners, and manufacturers
- Add good test coverage
- Building 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 evolve the platform and products
Qualifications
- 2 years of professional software engineering experience (preferably building web applications)
- High proficiency in at least one industry-common language and comfortable with others
- Experience building a professionally successful production application in a modern web framework
- Ability to design new features around data models with accuracy, security, and performance in mind
- Experience with a database and query optimization
- Fluency with JavaScript features as a prototyped/functional language
- Good software testing habits
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to adapt quickly and manage many concurrent responsibilities
- Strong customer-oriented mindset
- Positive attitude and team-oriented
- Experience with a backend language, an ORM, and writing API endpoints
- Startup work experience is a plus
Skills

About Vetcove
Powering the animal health supply chain.
Vetcove is how veterinarians buy the supplies they need to keep America's pets healthy. Our community of more than 18,000 veterinary hospitals employs tens of thousands of veterinarians and delivers care to many millions of animals every year across all 50 states. As of 2022, we power purchasing and supply chain infrastructure for half of America's general practices, emergency and specialty clinics, SPCAs, zoos, aquariums, and veterinary consolidators. Vetcove's eCommerce and mobile platforms afford veterinary hospitals a frictionless purchasing experience, and facilitate delivery of medications to pet parents across the country. Simply put, Vetcove helps veterinary organizations spend more time giving care, and less time comparing suppliers and managing inventory. We're completely revolutionizing the way veterinarians discover and buy products, and how animal health brands engage their veterinary customers. We're hiring! Come join us on our journey to transform how vets buy and prescribe the animal healthcare products that keep our pets in peak condition.
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