Senior Full Stack Engineer - Tech Lead

With a robust multi year roadmap IDEXX has invested heavily in Veterinary Software. Auckland’s home to our global software center of excellence and we’re seeking a skilled Senior Full Stack Engineer - Tech Lead to join our squad. Your focus is delivering high quality solutions that overcome complex challenges related to our portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re looking for an ambitious technical expert to run point on 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 (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: https://careers.idexx.com/us/en/veterinary-software

More about our tech?

ezyVet helps veterinary practices save time, increase revenue, communicate better with clients and reduce workload stress. ezyVet’s the tip of the software spear, our main PIMS application, is a single page webapp built and maintained on PHP. React, TypeScript and Redux Front-end and PHP with Laravel 7.x for our APIs. Going onto the platform, we use MySQL 8 for our databases and our servers are all managed through AWS. Utilising docker, terraform and GitLab to rollout and manage our cloud application and its many services. For example, using Redis, DynamoDB, Lambda and Step Functions to provide unique solutions for our applications and internal systems.

SmartFlow is patient workflow software designed to minimize bottlenecks and strengthen clinical processes in a veterinary practice. SmartFlow offers a well-established solution with a single-page AngularJS (soon to be React) web application, complemented by a dedicated iOS native iPad app. The backend, built on .NET, is managed in Azure utilising Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker containers, and GitHub Actions for streamlined deployments. Azure Service Bus is used in an event-driven architecture, with CosmosDB for NoSQL storage and MSSQL for relational storage. Real-time web functionality is delivered through SignalR, and the iPad app is supported by Apple Push.

Vet Radar enhances in-patient workflows, helping veterinary practices improve their clinical processes and deliver a higher standard of care. Vet Radar is a serverless architecture, using a single React-Native codebase to deploy both a single-page web application and an iOS app via Expo. The serverless backend is managed on AWS, with deployments handled by Terraform and GitHub Actions. We leverage a comprehensive suite of AWS services, including Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, RDS (Postgres), DynamoDB, and ElastiCache, to deliver a scalable and resilient solution.

Vello gives everything a vet needs to connect with their clients—all in one place. It streamlines the ways they engage with pet owners with a single experience built for IDEXX PIMS. With software-supported engagement across the life stages of a pet, pet owners become informed partners in care—supporting better health outcomes. Vello is built on AWS with a cloud-native approach. We use Lambda for serverless computing, TypeScript for development, and combines DynamoDB with Postgres RDS for data management. ECS containers handle deployment, scalability & performance.

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.
What your day might look like: 

• Create technical design documentation
• Build large scale or complex projects that are fit for purpose and achieve the desired result
• Build code that is beautifully crafted, highly scalable, and maintainable
• Monitor, evaluate and improve projects as they are released (agile)
• Write well crafted unit tests
• Provide senior code reviews to ensure code that is released is robust and does not break
• Refactor the low-level framework objects to improve the performance and scalability of our platforms
• Contribute to high level tech stack related discussions and aid in driving our application forward
• Be a role model that junior and intermediate engineers can look up to for guidance
• 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 Software Engineer
• Proven technical capability with software design
• Experience leading technical advancements to solve problems
• Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies
• Previous experience in SaaS environment
• Experience with any: PHP/Laravel, GoLang, Typescript, MySQL, AWS ( or C/C++,C#, Java, other OOP languages depends on ability) Node.js, React.js, React Native Web, other cloud architecture 
• Experience with unit testing
• Strong OO design patterns, modular design 
• Experience building and consuming APIs (JSON, SOAP) 

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 bar!
• Coffee + snacks + catered lunches at least twice a week (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 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.

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