Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Instinct Science is at the forefront of veterinary innovation, offering an ecosystem that veterinarians rely on for every aspect and stage of their careers. Our tools include easy-to-use veterinary practice software (Instinct EMR), Clinician's Brief for knowledge and skills, clinical and pharmaceutical decision support (Standards of Care & Plumb's), and an AI scribing platform (ScribbleVet).

At Instinct Science, we believe in leading with compassion. Our culture is guided by our U.C.A.R.E. values: moving fast because our mission matters, putting customers at the center of every decision, and treating each other with kindness and high standards.

About the role

This is a fully remote role. 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. You will work closely with a small, cross-functional, highly-collaborative team to deliver quality software that solves real problems for our customers. We prize excellence, creativity, and accountability and provide autonomy to do your best work.

Why Join Instinct Now?

• Shape core product decisions while we're still small enough to pivot quickly
• Work on greenfield projects that will serve tens of thousands of users
• Help build the engineering culture and practices for a team that will 10x

Responsibilities

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
• 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

Requirements

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

Qualifications

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 good design patterns and efficient queries/data access

Benefits

• Supportive and caring work environment
• Transparent, open, honest, and empathetic culture
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401K with match
• Owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays
• Generous stipend for personal and professional development
• All-expense-paid annual retreat and team gatherings

Pay

The compensation range for this role is $150,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation will be determined through a variety of factors including the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.