Lead Full Stack Engineer

What We Do   Roo (www.roo.vet) has created the first B2B labor marketplace in animal healthcare that connects veterinary professionals with hospitals through innovative technology, with opportunities to expand and offer more opportunities for both our demand & supply of users.    Our dynamic platform enables hospitals to fulfill personnel needs in real time, while allowing high-quality veterinary professionals to secure work at the click of a button.  Beyond the platform, Roo represents a growing opportunity to help hospitals meet all-things staffing, and a growing community of resilient vet industry professionals who value flexibility and work-life balance, in addition to providing the best possible outcomes for clients and their pets.     Our aim is to combine experienced healthcare expertise with Silicon Valley talent to shake up this industry and change the way veterinarians and hospitals work!

About the Role

Roo is looking for a passionate, skilled, and driven Lead Full Stack Engineer to help build out Roo’s web application for animal hospitals, veterinarians, and veterinary technicians. We’re a fast moving team that’s rapidly building out new features for our fast growing platform.  

Your Responsibilities

• Work closely with our product managers, designers, and other engineers to build out new products and features for the Roo platform
• Partner with your fellow engineering leaders to help shape Roo’s technical architecture and tech stack, and help us set ourselves up for success during our next phase of growth
• Assume leadership of new projects from conceptualization to deployment
• Help lead the design and development of scalable code architecture and write clear maintainable code on the front and back-end
• Monitor project progress and manage resources to meet project goals
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues, and provide solutions to ensure project success
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and technologies, and make recommendations for improvement
• You will spend around 20% of your time managing and mentoring a small team of engineers, providing guidance and support in their professional growth, and the rest of your time will be hands-on in the code, working through tasks with the team and leading by example.  

About You

• Minimum of 5-7 years of professional experience with JavaScript as a Full Stack Software Engineer working with React and Node.js
• Experience working with a growing team and early stage startup strongly preferred
• B2B, Marketplace, and/or SaaS experience a plus
• Proficient at writing and optimizing efficient SQL queries
• Strong verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, CSS, React,, Cloud Computing Platforms, and relational databases
• Hands-on experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Cypress, React Native, and AWS is a plus
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field preferred
• Highly self-driven with a passion to solve problems and research solutions
• Extremely agile & flexible, since we are evolving continually
• Very collaborative with other team members within & across teams and US/international cities, demonstrates empathy
• Trustworthy with impeccable integrity, authenticity, and high ethical standards
• Great attention to details
• Can do positive attitude
• Preference to be hands on coding, but happy with some people management duties.

While we are a remote first company, if you are based in San Francisco this will be a hybrid role.  Please see below for examples of compensation ranges based on state averages.

 

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

California pay range$190,000—$230,000 USDNew York pay range$190,000—$230,000 USDWashington pay range$150,000—$210,000 USDColorado pay range$140,000—$200,000 USDTexas pay range$140,000—$200,000 USDNorth Carolina pay range$130,000—$190,000 USD Core Values   Our Core Values are what shape us as an organization and we're looking for people who exhibit the same values in their professional life; Bias to Urgency, Drive Measurable Impact, Seek Understanding, Solve Customer Problems and Have Fun!    What to expect from working at Roo!   For permanent, full time employees, we offer: