Senior Full Stack Engineer
Hi from Pumpkin!
Pumpkin is a pet care company on a mission to keep pets healthy. We want to revolutionize pet healthcare by making it easier for families to provide their pets with the preventatives and insurance they need to live healthy today and fur-ever. 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 happier world for pets and their people.
Pumpkin is looking for Senior Full Stack Engineers to help build out an insurance platform focused on enabling Pet Parents and Veterinarians to give pets the best care possible. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Pumpkin, you'll partner with product and design to deliver insurance and wellness experiences optimized for pets and their pet parents. You'll also own a portion of the architectural planning and realization of our application and its delivery.
Pumpkin is a rapidly growing pet care startup, and we’re doing great things. If using technology to transform an industry is as exciting to you as it is to us, we'd love to hear from you!
Remote candidates encouraged to apply.
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with product and design teams to create experiences and software for Pet Parents and Veterinarians to ensure pets receive the best care possible.
- Facilitate engineering practices that enable growth and scaling of the company, team, and product.
- Work across the stack, creating reusable components with modern, maintainable and testable code.
- Contribute ideas and proactively identify areas for improvement.
- Support your teammates by continuing to learn and grow.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5 years of experience with full-stack development.
- Competency with front-end frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular.
- Experience optimizing mobile web performance.
- Competency with Python.
- Competency with SQL and query optimization\tuning.
- Understands the impact their work and methods can have on their peers.
- Has business awareness and can plan and build in an iterable fashion.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with DevOps tools/processes and AWS.
- Experiences with serverless architectures.
- Experience with compliance needs such as ADA, PCI and CCPA.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning frameworks such as Scikit, Keras, and Tensorflow.
What We're Offering:
- Be a part of our mission to create a happier, healthier world for pets & their people
- 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
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
- 401k + company match
- Pumpkin Insurance and preventative care for every pet in your family
- Flexible PTO
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.
About Pumpkin:
We are on a mission to ‘Make the best pet care possible fur all’. Pumpkin is a rapidly growing pet care startup disrupting the $1.7B US pet insurance industry. Pet insurance is growing 17% YOY, yet only 2% of dogs and cats in the US are currently insured. We’re looking to change that so that every dog and cat can live the best life pawsible.
Our Culture & Values
Launched by Zoetis (ZTS), a Fortune 500 company that’s the world’s largest animal health company, Pumpkin is led by a team of engineers, product managers, marketers, data experts, designers, and customer care specialists who love and live for our pets – and for yours.
Pets Come First: Put what's best for pets at the center of everything you 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 your gifts and amazing things will happen
Dig New Holes: Challenge conventions to create the future of pet health care