Staff Software Engineer, Vetcove
$170-250k
+ Bonus + Equity. Salary varies on location
Single-source veterinarian supply shop
Job no longer available
Single-source veterinarian supply shop
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$170-250k
+ Bonus + Equity. Salary varies on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide a fair and ethical marketplace for veterinary purchasing.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years of experience building and shipping software, with a proven ability to handle large-scale projects
- Top Dog in Tech: Fluency in Python and/or JavaScript (React), with a curiosity to learn new tools and frameworks
- Data Whisperer: Expertise in databases, APIs, and designing for scale and performance
- Simplicity Expert: An instinct for building systems and code that are as elegant as they are effective
- Great Communicator: Ability to explain technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively with others
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Vetcove, you’ll do some of the most important work of your career
- You’ll take ownership of major product areas—designing, building, and improving the tools that help veterinary clinics streamline operations, deliver exceptional patient care, and optimize their supply chains
- The systems you create will manage billions of dollars in transactions and empower clinics to focus on their patients, not their logistics
- This isn’t just another engineering job—it’s a chance to tackle meaningful challenges and make a real-world impact
- You’ll be involved in everything: deciding what to build, designing how it works, and ensuring it gets into the hands of users seamlessly
- If you thrive on solving hard problems and creating tools that matter, this role is for you
- We’re a fast-moving team solving big challenges in a field that’s rapidly adopting technology
- Our platform powers every aspect of veterinary clinic operations, from medical records to purchasing workflows
- But we’re not just building software—we’re rethinking how the industry operates, making it more efficient and humane
- At Vetcove, engineers work across the stack and have a holistic view of the platform
- You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with users, influence the product roadmap, and make a real difference in an industry that impacts millions of animals and their caregivers
- Lead the Pack: Take ownership of key product areas, guiding their design, development, and delivery to success
- Paws-On Features: Create user-focused features, from polished interfaces to high-performance backend services
- Mentor the Pack: Share knowledge, set high standards for technical decisions, and help your teammates grow
- Chase the Tough Problems: Dive into challenging issues, from debugging elusive bugs to optimizing high-volume queries
- Collaborate Across the Kennel: Work closely with product, design, and operations teams to align on priorities and deliver impact
- Tools We Use:
- Backend: Python (Django, Django Rest Framework)
- Frontend: JavaScript (React, React-Query), Less.js, TypeScript
- Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Clickhouse
- Mobile: React Native
- Version Control: Git
Our take
Purchasing inventory for veterinary hospitals can be time-consuming and expensive, as finding the best prices requires a lengthy process of researching suppliers and comparing their prices. Whilst some comparison tools do exist for veterinary organizations, existing solutions do not take into account custom negotiations, GPOs or corporate pricing schemes, limiting the thoroughness of comparisons.
Vetcove provides an online marketplace for veterinary hospital inventory procurement, allowing clinics to reduce ordering times and costs through its free service. The company achieves this by allowing users to link their existing vendor accounts and list their custom pricing arrangements, helping inform a more accurate comparison ecosystem and boost supplier sales, whilst resolving supply chain limitations.
Whilst veterinary organizations already have access to the suppliers provided on Vetcove’s marketplace, the company stands out by integrating custom pricing arrangements into the comparison ecosystem. This helps to provide a more holistic and accurate overview of supply chain inventories and costs. Whilst the marketplace is free for veterinary clinics and organizations, the company charges suppliers to be listed.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES A
Aug 2016
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $53.2m
Company benefits
- Open Vacation Policy
- Stock Options & Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401K Matching
Leadership
Alexander Kates
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Co-founder and Group Manager of Jersey Angels, LLC from 2009 to 2012. Co-founder and Managing Director of GRX from 2012 to 2015.
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