Senior Full Stack Engineer – Tech Lead

IDEXX
has invested heavily in Veterinary Software and is seeking a skilled
Senior Full Stack Engineer - Tech Lead
to join our squad at our Auckland global software center of excellence. Your focus will be delivering high-quality solutions that address complex challenges related to our portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We're looking for a motivated technical expert to lead one or potentially two squads focused on specific products. Come help us push the boundaries of what veterinary software can do.

So, what is IDEXX Veterinary Software?
Here in Auckland we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We're building a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technical expertise to deliver. Solutions for practice management information system (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more. We're on a mission to build the best health technology business, and we need you to help us do it Our journey is solving veterinary practices' most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health. You can learn more about IDEXX Veterinary Software here:

More About Our Software Products

• ezyVet is our primary PIMS, a single-page PHP webapp with a React, TypeScript, and Redux front end, and Laravel 7.x APIs. It runs on MySQL 8 and AWS with deployments via Docker, Terraform, and GitLab, leveraging Redis, DynamoDB, Lambda, and Step Functions.
• SmartFlow is patient workflow software with an AngularJS (soon React) web app, a native iOS iPad app, and a .NET backend on Azure. It uses Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure Service Bus, CosmosDB, MSSQL, SignalR, and Apple Push.
• Vet Radar improves in-patient workflows with a React-Native codebase for web and iOS apps (via Expo). Its AWS serverless backend, deployed with Terraform and GitHub Actions, uses Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, RDS (Postgres), DynamoDB, and ElastiCache.
• Vello connects veterinary teams and clients through a cloud-native AWS platform integrated with IDEXX PIMS. It uses Lambda, TypeScript, DynamoDB, Postgres RDS, and ECS containers for scalability and performance.

In This Role

• Create technical design documentation
• Build large-scale or complex projects that are fit for purpose and achieve the desired result
• Build code that is well-crafted, highly scalable, and maintainable
• Monitor, evaluate, and improve projects as they are released (agile)
• Write well-designed unit tests
• Provide senior code reviews to ensure code that is released is robust and reliable
• Refactor low-level framework objects to improve the performance and scalability of our platforms
• Contribute to high-level tech stack discussions and help drive our applications forward
• Serve as a mentor and guide for junior and intermediate engineers
• 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 Full Stack Software Engineer
• Proven technical capability with software design, experience leading technical advancements to solve problems, experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies
• Experience with unit testing
• Experience with any: Typescript, MySQL, AWS (or C/C++, C#, Java, other OOP languages depending on ability), PHP/Laravel, GoLang, , , React Native Web, other cloud architectures
• Previous experience in a SaaS environment
• Strong Object Oriented (OO) design patterns and modular design
• Experience building and consuming APIs (JSON, SOAP)

Not sure you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway - we're open to learning more about what you can bring.
What You Can Expect From Us

• Structured onboarding, induction, ongoing training, and transparent performance-driven professional development
• Rewarding salary packages including incentive schemes for all
• Continuous L&D
• Great tech kit
• Hybrid working with a great office space to collaborate, including a gym and a rooftop meeting space
• Coffee + snacks + Food Truck Friyay
• Dog-friendly office
• Fully subsidized Southern Cross Health insurance
• Part-subsidized parking via Parkable
• Career pathways that will take you places if you are willing and able

If you want to work with real purpose, solving key challenges in the animal health industry with innovative cloud software, this is the opportunity for you

Why IDEXX
We're proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles 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 a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

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

Let's pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, 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.