About this role
About this role:
This contract opening exists to drive the technical direction and architectural scalability of our core data integration and product expansion roadmaps. In this role, you will take hands-on technical ownership of our engineering pods, establishing robust governance, optimizing high-throughput ETL pipelines, and tuning database performance. You will be responsible for setting clear system contracts, eliminating single-point-of-failure risks, and maintaining high sprint predictability to ensure our engineering teams deliver reliably at scale.
Apply if you’re excited to:
- Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain the long-term technical vision, performance standards, and architectural guardrails for our systems.
- Delivery & Execution: Lead technical scoping, code reviews, and technical design for major streams, balancing rapid feature delivery with technical debt management.
- Team Guidance & Governance: Directly lead and mentor a focused group of software engineers, supporting their career growth and fostering engineering best practices.
- Roadmap & Expansion: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to scale system integrations and drive the architectural expansion of our initiatives.
About You:
- 8+ years of hands-on software development experience, with 2+ years leading engineering pods or acting as a Tech Lead.
- Core Technical Stack (Mandatory): Advanced proficiency in Python, .NET, and C#.
- Proven experience building and maintaining robust ETL pipelines and orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow.
- Strong expertise in MSSQL and PostgreSQL database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with core AWS technologies (e.g., S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS) to deploy scalable data architecture.
- Experience conducting architectural reviews, breaking down complex epics, and mentoring engineers to elevate team output.
- Strong ability to balance immediate roadmap delivery against long-term architectural stability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
PetDesk combines the industry's most user-friendly client engagement tools with the highest-rated pet parent app to simplify your veterinary clinic’s operations while strengthening client relationships.
Our recruiting process is rooted in “Who: The A Method of Hiring” and consists of an average 2-week hiring timeline. This standardized interview process allows candidates to answer the same questions, experience the same process, and ensure a fair performance review from multiple perspectives.
Please, no external recruiters—candidate profiles submitted from external recruiting agencies will not be considered.