Engineering Teams Lead

We’re seeking a people focused Engineering Teams Lead to join the Vet Radar team, based here in our Auckland R&D center of excellence.

Basically, we're looking for a leader of technical people who is capable of driving delivery velocity by resourcing appropriately, developing great engineers that are aligned to our roadmap and customer goals.

You grow leaders, hire and inspire driven engineers to reach beyond what they think they can achieve. You're a communicator that can distill desired objectives into meaningful outcomes that inspire the team to get behind.

But what is Vet Radar you ask? Vet Radar makes it easy for busy veterinary teams to elevate their standard of patient care while managing caseloads requiring treatment, hospitalization, and monitoring of standard, specialist, or emergency procedures. It's so much more than just a digital whiteboard!

As a complete patient care software, Vet Radar guides patients and care teams through every stage of the treatment journey, from admission to discharge. Based in Auckland, Vet Radar is an integral part of IDEXX veterinary software, helping vets and pets with cutting edge tech since ages ago!

Within IDEXX we are a part of the IDEXX Veterinary Software portfolio. With a focus on software solutions, we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, our 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.

If you want work with real purpose, rallying technical experts to solve key challenges in the animal health industry with innovative cloud software, this is the opportunity for you!

What you’ll bring:

• Proven multi skilled team leadership experience - Leadership of 1-2 squads of engineers (Developers and QA's)
• Coaching and career development for your squads
• Track record of coaching, leading, hiring and inspiring engineers
• Experience with principles and practices relating to modern software engineering and using cloud technologies.
• Responsibility for delivery, engineering practices and processes, balancing and negotiating with product between technical improvements and roadmap delivery
• Significant web development experience
• Reviewing fellow coder's code, discuss exciting problems with your team members and keep collaborating!
• Previous experience with delivering product in a SaaS environment
• Experience with Typescript, Node.js, React Native Web
• AWS - understanding serverless architectures
• OOP in JS/TS
• Working knowledge of Agile
• Dynamo, Postgres, and elastic search
• A Computer Science or Information System degree OR industry qualification equivalent is 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 bar!
• Coffee + snacks + catered lunches at least twice a week
• Animal friendly office

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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