Technical Lead

IDEXX continues to invest in Veterinary Software with a goal to offer the first vertical SaaS platform for Animal Health. We're growing both our capacity to deliver impactful software and the technical expertise to tackle future challenges relating to scale. Auckland's home to our global software center of excellence where we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications.

We're seeking a skilled
Technical Lead
to join the Auckland team and lead a squad of keen software engineers focused on one of our most critical applications, Vello . This role balances hands-on technical work and team leadership, with time split about 50/50. You'll tackle complex technical challenges while creating clear paths for the team to follow.

You'll work with modern web technologies, including TypeScript, Go, and cloud-native architectures, to develop robust and maintainable solutions. With a strong focus on DevOps and automation, you'll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and system reliability. If you're passionate about building cutting-edge applications in a fast-moving environment and enjoy working with event-driven architecture, domain-services, containerization, and distributed systems, we'd love to hear from you
The high level responsibilities of your role:

• As a leader, you inspire, mentor, and train a cross-functional squad to deliver complete value streams. You'll oversee squad members, ensuring their software meets high standards, aligns with the product roadmap, and supports the overall technical strategy.
• Your primary goal is to build effective, engaged engineering teams, typically a single Squad. Working closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Leadership, you'll balance technical quality, team satisfaction, and delivery outcomes for users.
• The secondary goal is to lead by example—whether as an engineer, architect, or advocate for quality assurance. Your expertise in any of these areas will allow you to provide guidance and mentorship that empowers your teams.

What You Need To Succeed

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer
• Proven technical people influencer
• Experienced in evolving culture and process towards better engagement, agility, automated testing, and DevSecOps.
• Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies
• Practical knowledge of s ystems and/or software design.
• Familiarity with modern web technologies (such as React), and cloud backend technologies (such as GoLang, Typescript, .NET, Ruby, Java).
• Agile processes including Scrum, Kanban, and/or others.
• Previous experience in scaled SaaS environment is hugely desirable

What You Can Expect From Us

• Structured onboarding, induction, ongoing training and transparent performance driven professional development
• Rewarding salary packages including lucrative incentive schemes for all
• Continuous L&D (both internal and externally)
• Great tech kit for both work and personal use
• Hybrid working with a great office space to collaborate - including a gym and roof top terrace
• Coffee + Fruit + Food Truck Friday
• 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 work with real purpose in a growing company solving key challenges in the animal health industry with innovative cloud software, this is the opportunity for you

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 (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 You can learn more about IDEXX Veterinary Software here: 

At IDEXX we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, IDEXX Veterinary Software 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.

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.