Hi from Pumpkin!

Pumpkin is a pet care company on a mission to help make ‘the best pet care possible fur all’. We want to revolutionize pet healthcare by making it easier for families to provide their pets with the wellness and medical care they need throughout their lives. Launched by Zoetis (ZTS), a Fortune 500 company that’s the world’s largest animal health company, Pumpkin is an early-stage startup with big dreams! As a pack, we share agility, guts, collaboration, and a relentless pursuit in creating a healthier, happier world for pets and their people.

Pumpkin is looking for an engineering leader to help ensure that pets stay healthy and veterinarians stay supported!. They will give lift to the business as they ensure we can scale our engineering organization and confidently deliver for pets, pet parents, and vets.. This role will help lead and grow our software development practice, contribute to strategy and drive execution.

This will be a hybrid position, with a requirement of 2 days a week in the New York City office.

What You'll Do:

• Provide technical and people leadership for the engineering organization.
• Contribute to, and execute, the strategic vision for engineering at Pumpkin.
• Implement metrics and observability around engineering processes and outcomes.
• Own and evolve the scaling, quality, and performance of our engineering practice.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure technical needs are planned for and executed.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage a high performance team of engineers.
• Facilitate compliance and governance obligations.

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years of experience in development with 5+ years in progressive management roles in a technology company.
• Ability to participate in architectural discussions and drive technology decisions.
• Proven capacity to actively drive processes, standards, and devops to deliver high quality outcomes and experiences.
• A strategic mindset with demonstrable ability hit near term needs while balancing long term goals.
• Experience driving multi-team initiatives.
• Excellent project, people, and stakeholder management skills.

Bonus Points:

• Analytical and data exploration skills.
• Experience with hybrid/remote engineering teams.
• Implementation of PCI, DFS and/or other compliance regimes.
• Knowledge of veterinary practice or animal health industry.
• Knowledge of insurance software / practices.

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive contributions to medical, dental and vision for colleagues and dependents.
• Generous PTO and Paid Holidays
• 401k with company match
• Pumpkin Insurance and preventative care for every pet in your family
• The opportunity to join a team where every team member has the autonomy and support they need to boss their role and make empowered decisions
• Pet Friendly Offices, Stocked Kitchens, Team Workouts, Team Outings and much more!

Pumpkin's Core Values:

Pets Come First: Put what’s best for pets at the center of everything we do

Trust the Pack: Help families make empowered pet care decisions

Jump Fences: If there’s a will, there’s always a way over them

Share Toys: Be generous with our gifts and amazing things will happen

Dig New Holes: Challenge conventions to create the future of pet health care

The compensation for this position ranges from $165,000- $220,000 (annually). Compensation may vary outside the listed range, based on a number of factors including but not limited to location, qualifications, performance, skills and experience. The compensation range listed is just one component of Pumpkin’s total compensation package for employees. Total compensation packages, depending on the position, may also include incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other short or long-term incentives. If hired, employees will be in an ‘at-will position’ and Pumpkin reserves the right to modify compensation (as well as any other discretionary payment or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Newly hired staff must be fully vaccinated by their start date. Applicants unable to comply with this policy due to an underlying medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may be eligible for an accommodation, unless such an accommodation would be unduly burdensome or present a direct threat to the applicant, our employees, or the members of our greater community.

Pumpkin is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.