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Software Development Team Lead

IDEXX
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

With a robust multi year roadmap IDEXX has invested heavily in Veterinary Software we seeking a skilled Software Development Team Lead to join our squad. Your focus is delivering high quality solutions that overcome complex challenges related to our portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re looking for an ambitious technical expert to run point on a squad focused on specific products. Come help us push the boundaries of what veterinary software can do.

This role will be based hybrid in the Westbrook, Me, Boston or New England areas

So, what is IDEXX Veterinary Software?

At IDEXX we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re building a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technical expertise to deliver. Solutions for practice management (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more. We’re on a mission to build the best health technology business and we need you to help us do it! You can learn more about IDEXX Veterinary Software here :

More about our tech?

gives everything a vet needs to connect with their clients—all in one place. It streamlines the ways they engage with pet owners with a single experience built for IDEXX PIMS. With software-supported engagement across the life stages of a pet, pet owners become informed partners in care—supporting better health outcomes. Vello is built on AWS with a cloud-native approach. We use Lambda for serverless computing, TypeScript for development, and combines DynamoDB with Postgres RDS for data management. ECS containers handle deployment, scalability & performance.

At IDEXX we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, IDEXX Veterinary Software solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

What your day might look like :

  • Create technical design documentation
  • Build large scale or complex projects that are fit for purpose and achieve the desired result
  • Build code that is beautifully crafted, highly scalable, and maintainable
  • Monitor, evaluate and improve projects as they are released (agile)
  • Write well crafted unit tests
  • Provide senior code reviews to ensure code that is released is robust and does not break
  • Refactor the low-level framework objects to improve the performance and scalability of our platforms
  • Contribute to high level tech stack related discussions and aid in driving our application forward
  • Be a role model that junior and intermediate engineers can look up to for guidance
  • Lead collaboration with cross functional teams to better understand the broader aspects of our portfolio and collectively solve the challenges of scale

What you need to succeed :

  • Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer
  • Proven technical capability with software design
  • Experience leading technical advancements to solve problems
  • Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies
  • Previous experience in SaaS environment
  • Experience with any of the following would be beneficial but not required, Typescript, Go, AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Node / Next.js, React, React Native, MySQL or other OOP languages.
  • Experience with unit testing
  • Strong OO design patterns, modular design
  • Experience building and consuming APIs (JSON, SOAP)
  • What you can expect from us

  • Competitive base salary
  • Opportunity for annual equity award
  • Opportunity for annual cash bonus
  • Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
  • 5% matching 401k
  • Additional benefits include but are not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!
  • Why IDEXX

    We’re proud of the work we do because our work matters. An innovation expert in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Core Values to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and over 10,000 talented employees globally.

    So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be motivated by generous compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

    Let’s pursue what matters together.

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