About Pawp

Pawp is on a mission to make the future of pet care more accessible and affordable. Pawp offers a 24/7 digital clinic allowing pet parents to have unlimited, appointment-free chats with licensed vets, and a financial safety net for emergency vet bills. Pawp provides the tools pet parents need to keep their pets healthy, happy, and free of economic strain. Pawp was founded by the same team who built, scaled and sold Paribus to Capital One and Clarity Money to Goldman Sachs.

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Android Software Engineer who is excited to be part of our early story and help us build a diverse and vibrant tech culture at Pawp. As the first Android engineer on the team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying our Android apps that power our members, pet professionals, and insurance offerings, product recommendations, etc. We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills, who are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. We look for candidates with a strong sense of ownership who enjoy taking projects from ideation to production. We value people who take pride in their work, and show an aptitude for learning quickly whether they’re familiar with our stack or not. As an early employee, you'll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and will have a large, long-term impact on Pawp's infrastructure and engineering culture.

What You'll do

• Build performant and scalable Android apps to showcase Pawp's innovative products
• Ship features using Kotlin, Compose UI, GraphQL, etc.
• Work closely with product and business teams to understand customer feedback in order to constantly improve our product
• Help establish and influence engineering processes, tools, and systems that will allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team

What You'll Need

• Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Track record of shipping high quality products and features at scale
• Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
• Passion for good design and user experience
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
• Alignment with Pawp's core values of providing pets the best care possible

Nice to Haves

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• Experience working in startups
• Familiarity with our tech stack which includes, but not limited to: GraphQL, Python, Typescript, React, etc
• Experience in the pet/wellness/healthcare space

What you'll get

• A Dog or Cat, we’re not kidding. We’ll pay for your expenses related to the adoption or rescue of any new hire
• Responsibility in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Build large scale distributed systems from the ground up
• World-class talent and team
• A chance to be a defining member of the team, with equity to match
• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO
• Pawp Perks