Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Instinct Science (remote, full-time). This job, and the team at Instinct, is remote. As a Sr. Full-Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and developing modern veterinary software that serves thousands of users in animal hospitals across the globe. Engineers in this role often take ownership of projects and have the ability to take on larger and more complex features and bugs. You will work closely with a small, cross-functional, highly-collaborative team to deliver quality software that solves real problems for our customers. Our teams have a deep understanding of their domains and work to deliver value with minimal overhead. We prize excellence, creativity, and accountability and in return provide autonomy and an environment to do your best work.

What You’ll Do 🐱‍💻
You'll own features end-to-end - from talking to veterinarians about their biggest frustrations, to prototyping solutions, to shipping production code that thousands of users rely on daily. This means:
Driving product direction: Partner with customers and product managers to identify high-impact problems, not just implement specs
Building with Elixir & React: Design scalable, elegant solutions using functional programming principles we love
Embracing ambiguity: Turn vague customer pain points into concrete features through experimentation and iteration
Moving fast: Ship meaningful updates weekly, gather feedback, and iterate
Mentoring & leading: Define technical direction, elevate junior engineers, and establish patterns that scale with our growth
Owning outcomes: You\'re measured by customer impact, not story points completed

Who You Are 🐱‍💻
You might thrive here if:
You've felt frustrated building features nobody uses—you want to validate before you build
You love functional programming elegance and think tools like Elixir make you a better engineer
You get energized by talking to users and seeing your code solve their real problems
You default to shipping small and iterating over perfecting in isolation
Ambiguity excites you more than it stresses you out
Must Haves:
5+ years of experience building modern SaaS applications
Knowledge of both back-end and front-end development languages
Ability to break complex problems into actionable and efficient work
Team-first attitude, including a strong desire to mentor teammates and build effective, lightweight work patterns
Strong communication skills in a remote work environment
Commitment to quality driven by empathy for our customers and their patients
Detail-oriented and organized in your work
Nice-to-Haves:
Deep knowledge of Elixir or Erlang for back-end development
Knowledge of Typescript and React for front-end development
Experience using AWS to build, deploy and troubleshoot applications
Proven experience with relational databases, including using good design patterns and building and tuning efficient queries/data access