Software Engineer at VetRec

VetRec is an AI Scribe for Veterinarians. We help veterinary professionals automate all their clinical documentation workflows and save ~2 hours per day per doctor.

The burnout, stress, and high churn of veterinary professionals is real. We are laser-focused on our mission to empower veterinary professionals to work more efficiently through software that enhances patient care and promotes a healthier work-life balance. It all starts with our flagship product, the AI Scribe.

We are a fast-growing team. Founders are ex-Microsoft who built large-scale big-data, communications, and AI platforms. We have members of our team who were ex-founders in the pet space and some who were veterinary professionals in the past!

We are rapidly growing. Adding animal clinics and hospitals across the US, Canada, and the world.

• You get excited and take pride in working on something that is changing people's lives for the better.
• You are energetic, willing to put in the work and enjoy the fast-paced nature of a startup.
• You love animals and are familiar - or want to get deeply familiarized - with the veterinary medicine industry.
• As an early-stage member of the team, you get to influence the product, the direction of the company, hiring, and the forming of new teams. We are looking for a 10x Software Engineer who can help scale, innovate, and advance VetRec’s suite of products.

This is a remote position. Our Engineering team is predominantly in our HQ in Seattle.

For all questions please email us at hiring@ This is the only mailbox we are monitoring for job postings.

Our values

• Get s* done: We are a fast pace team, shipping features daily and onboarding clinics and hospitals of all types and sizes daily.

• Transparency: We believe in brutal honesty amongst our team and customers.

• Grit: Competing in an evolving market means going above and beyond for our customers and fighting on behalf of them every day.

• Customers, customers, customers: Did we already mention customers? They are the lifeblood of our business, without them we don’t exist.

• Over-communication > under-communication: As a small, fast paced team, communication is vital. We look for team members that will keep things moving and constantly update the team as needed. What will you be doing

• Develop robust and scalable backend systems

• Design and develop high-quality frontend systems

• Scale our multi-region infrastructure

• Instill and maintain high coding standards and best practices. Fixing issues as you find them.

• Ship high-quality features fast and not be afraid of breaking things.. “Unless you are breaking stuff, you aren’t moving fast enough” Who do we want

Someone who shares the values that we share. Someone who constantly raises the bar, is proactive, has grit and determination, and can get s* done. We are a fast-growing startup and as such, we work very hard (also celebrate every win!). Our team puts 10 hours a day on average into building this company. While there is not a specific time commitment as project-based outcomes > time-based ones, there is a sense of urgency to iterate and deliver constantly.

We believe in software engineering as a true end to end role. Our engineering team is consistently in contact with customers, driving results from idea conception, validation, execution and delivery. Communications skills and desire for customer-facing responsibilities are a must!

Specifically for this role:

• 5+ year of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with FastAPI or similar web frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in React and React Native.
• Experience building AI-powered features using LLMs. (Experience using frameworks like BAML are a plus!)
• Proven track record of building and maintaining large-scale backend systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a strong understanding of software engineering principles.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Practical experience with cloud services, particularly AWS or Azure. Including Storage Buckets/Blobs, EC2/Azure VMs, Lambda/Functions, and Redis/Message Brokers.
• Solid understanding of database management, design, and optimization, with hands-on experience in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• A passion for AI and technology, eager to work in a startup environment where agility and innovation are highly valued. VetRec is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status.