Vetspire Engineering Manager

Description

Position at Thrive Pet Healthcare

Vetspire is a fast-growing SaaS company revolutionizing veterinary practice management. We're passionate about empowering veterinary professionals with intuitive and powerful software that streamlines their workflows and improves animal care. We foster a collaborative and supportive environment where creativity and innovation are valued.

Job Summary:

• Lead the Clinical team, focusing on clinical user experience in the Vetspire web app
• Drive cutting-edge enhancements in veterinary patient care to delight users and encourage adoption of Vetspire
• Focus on technical leadership, team supervision and cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities:

• Handles hiring, performance reviews, and career development of software engineers on the team
• Manage the agile development process, with support from the VP of Engineering and Product Manager
• Provide architectural expertise and guide platform evolution decisions
• Create and document high level architectural solutions to include cloud infrastructure and application runtime objects relationship
• Monitor and manage platform security, performance, and stability over the assigned application domain as part of recurring team practice
• Foster a culture of security, coding standards, architecture patterns, resiliency, and thorough documentation
• Manage lifecycle of incidents raised by support and/or product teams
• Elevate collaboration and team comfort through proactive leadership
• Facilitate effective communication across teams
• Take ownership over delivery of team features, bugs and technical debt reduction
• Cultivate close relationships with the Product team to align product strategy and technical debt with roadmap planning
• Work with Product Owner and Support Team to address customer support escalations
• Work with external technical stakeholders when developing new features, addressing difficult system failures, and/or third-party system integrations

Key Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science and/or related engineering field or 10+ years' experience in technical field
• 5 years of demonstrated proficiency in back-end language (e.g. Elixir or similar preferred) and front-end framework (e.g. React preferred)
• 2 years in a technical managerial role with proven success in delivering business value while sustaining high morale in team under your supervision
• Track record of leading engineering teams in developing high quality, scalable and secure software solutions on a high traffic web application

At Vetspire (a Thrive Pet Healthcare company), we celebrate and embrace the uniqueness and diversity of our team members, pet parents, and pets. We strive to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where all team members belong and feel empowered.