Senior Software Engineer

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)

6d•$170,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

VEG is building technology that helps hospital teams deliver exceptional emergency care for pets and their people. As VEG continues to grow, our internal products need to scale with the speed, reliability, and care our hospitals depend on every day. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform & Infrastructure team, you will build and improve backend systems that support critical hospital and internal workflows. Your first focus will be DogByte, a key product used across the business, while also contributing to new products as VEG expands. This role is for someone who enjoys building stable, maintainable systems with real operational impact. You will take product context, technical requirements, and ambiguity, then turn them into thoughtful solutions that are reliable today and ready for future growth.

Requirements

Product judgment, including the ability to understand user workflows and make technical decisions based on how systems are used in the real world
Strong backend ownership, with the ability to guide work from ambiguous problem to production-ready solution
A proactive approach to reliability, maintainability, and scalability
Experience building or configuring AI-enabled skills, tooling, workflows, or agents that improve your own development workflow and contribute to better team development practices
Direct experience with technologies relevant to our technical stack, which currently includes: Python, PostgreSQL, AWS
5+ years in engineering environments where developers own code through release, including CI/CD and production quality

Nice To Haves

Empathetic, instinctively taking a people-centric approach, whether supporting your colleagues or making an effort to understand different perspectives
Have a sense of humility; acknowledging mistakes, sharing credit with others, and lifting up your team’s accomplishments
Feel a strong sense of ownership over your work, taking responsibility for outcomes and staying committed to achieving long-term, impactful results
Curious by nature; you ask insightful questions and continuously seek out opportunities to learn and grow your skills and knowledge

Responsibilities

Build and improve backend systems that support DogByte and other internal products as VEG continues to grow
Own projects from problem framing through production release, including technical design, sequencing, testing, rollout, and follow-through
Partner with Product to understand how hospital and internal teams use our systems, then translate that context into practical backend decisions which work now and will continue to scale through hospital expansion
Collaborate with our SRE and DevSecOps teams to support safe, repeatable releases and healthy production systems
Use AI tools thoughtfully across code generation, review, testing, documentation, and problem-solving while maintaining strong judgment for quality and risk.
Review work across teams and provide technical feedback that improves quality, consistency, and long-term product stability