Yourgi Software Engineer II

Who we are: Yourgi is on a mission to become Earth's most trusted pet care connector, connecting pet parents with a reliable local network of certified professionals, pet resorts, and veterinary centers. Backed by a passionate team, our mission is to make pet care simple, accessible, and joyful for all. Because pets aren't just animals—they're family.

Our technology team is seeking add a Software Engineer II to our API Services Team. Candidates for this role must be experienced software engineers. They must be able to understand and enhance relational databases meet business requirements. They must be able to develop software in a team environment, collaborate with peers, communicate timelines and objectives and work within software design guardrails created for the team. As part of our technology team, engineers use state of the art tools and technologies to deliver exceptional user experience to our team members, customers and pets. We seek engineers passionate about meeting team and company objectives for quality, on-time delivery and customer experience.
Software Engineers must be located in and authorized to work in the US. We will not provide Visa sponsorship. They must be able to work during regular US business hours. They must attend remote daily standups as well as numerous other remote meetings during the week with team members and business partners.

We are looking to add a Software Engineer II to our team! 

• Work with engineering and business partners to define and build out complex software solutions driving business value. 
• Wok in an agile Scrum environment taking development assignments to triage and resolve issues, develop new and enhance existing product features. 
• Document software designs, objectives, and create and respond to RFCs in a shared collaboration environment such as Confluence. 
• Develop business logic to empower our web and mobile applications via RESTful APIs. 
• Design and develop services in a serverless AWS architecture to maintain modularity, performance, security, development efficiency and enhancements 
• Participate application design and design services that support those applications. 
• Work in an agile development environment, maintaining user story and task status, t-shirt sizing. 
• Respond to bugs and support issues to ensure web users are delighted to use our applications. 
• Conduct code reviews, create pull requests, respond to peer and manager feedback to improve source code, designs and deliverables. 
• Communicate on all open projects and give updates to both team members and Technology team staff. 

• 2+ years developing service-oriented applications 
• 2+ years Typescript or JavaScript 
• 3+ years commercial software development – Typescript, Javacript, Java, C#, Scala, python, Go 
• Experience contributing code, features and services as part of commercial software initiatives that were delivered to production in commercial or enterprise environments 
• Proficient with git, branch development, pull requests 
• Proficient with agile Scrum, Azure DevOps or Jira 

• Experience writing SQL queries and DML for RDMS such as MySQL 
• Experience creating or consuming RESTful APIs as part of a software development initiative 
• Ability to learn quickly, self-starter, manage multiple projects, meet deadlines and communicate accurate status, dependencies, requirements and projected delivery times 

• AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, S3 and other AWS services 
• AWS Certified Solution Architect or AWS Certified Developer 
• Experience building automation test suites 
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines 
• PKI, Oauth, Infosec 
• Veterinary practice management software, such as Cornerstone, AviMark or IDEXX Datapoint 

• Travel is not required 
• Learn quickly, self-starter, take direction well 
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills, detail orientated 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines 
• Must be able to work in front of a computer for long periods of time 
• Remote engineers must be able to work during regular US business hours; and must be able to regularly participate on calls via Teams or available to other team members via Teams. 

• Health, vision, dental, long & short-term disability, and Life insurance  
• A Startup mentality company with stable funding 
• 401k match  
• Pet Care discounts  
• Flexible Time Off
• Opportunity to grow your career with a network of like-minded professionals.

Yourgi affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
Yourgi endeavors to make our employment website and application process accessible to all users and applicants. In doing so, we provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation or assistance completing the application process, please contact a member of our recruitment team.
 
At Yourgi, we're all about creating a workplace that's bursting with diversity and inclusivity. We don't play favorites or judge folks based on skin color, religion, gender, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics. Our hiring decisions are solely based on what you can bring to the team. So, we're throwing the door wide open for all like-minded candidates who believe in celebrating and honoring diversity and inclusion. Ready to join our pack?