Principal Software Engineer

Covetrus is a global animal-health technology and services company dedicated to empowering veterinary practice partners to drive improved patient health and financial outcomes. With more than 5,000 employees and more than 100,000 global customers, our passion for the well-being of animals and those who care for them drives us to advance the world of veterinary medicine. In the USA, we bring together products, services, and technology into a single platform that

connects our customers to the solutions and insights they need to work best. Now, our mission is to bring this technology to veterinarians and their clients worldwide.

SUMMARY

The Front-End lead role demands responsibility for overseeing the design, development, and deployment of the ecommerce frontend application. Responsibilities include collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including backend developers, UI/UX designers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver an elegant UI experience which is a high-quality, responsive, and scalable ecommerce solution.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the front-end development team. Guide the team establishing best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns. • Work closely with backend developers to integrate frontend with backend APIs, ensuring seamless data exchange and functionality. • Implement and oversee quality assurance processes, including code reviews, testing strategies, and performance optimization to deliver a reliable and high-performing frontend application. • Create and maintain technical documentation. Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress and addressing any technical concerns. • Contribute clean and testable software using idiomatic design patterns. • Foster an engineering culture focused on creativity, quality, and accountability to team members by leading an agile team in building clean and tested software. • Take ownership of the overall customer experience. • Work with stakeholders ensuring short- and long-term goals are understood by individual contributors. • Communicate and assist platform teams in planning and delivering required upsteam and downstream integrations with the commerce platform. • Mentor team members and inspire through strong technical leadership with focus on ownership. • Assist production support team execution and processes. • Run and manage cloud infrastructure partnering with internal DevOps team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience within a collaborative team environment. • 7+ years’ experience delivering within agile development methodology. • Bachelor’s degree in IT related majors or concentrations.

COMPENTENCIES:

• Demonstrated excellence with Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. • Proven track record building web-based UI technologies such as AngularJS, React, Webpack. • Strong practitioner and advocate for unit testing with frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine and test automation with Playwright, Cypress, TestCafe. • Experience building elegant and meaningful data transfer structures in JSON and YAML. • Extended successful track record of building enterprise scaled web applications with emphasis on ecommerce sites. • High proficiency with database query languages: SQL and NoSQL. • Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services. • Solid experience leveraging monitoring and observability for proactive determination of impending performance issues and outages and quickly determining root cause for incidents using tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace. • Strong working experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Harness. • Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail. • Fluid yet direct verbal and written communication skills. • Ably navigate priorities with tested project management skills. • Adept at running containerized applications within multiple cloud providers. • Thorough experiences in building ecommerce experiences are helpful.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Remote working environment; or • Pet-friendly office environment • Extensive computer use

Salary may vary depending on factors such as confirmed job-related skills, experience, and location.

However, the pay range for this position is as follows. Sales Positions are eligible for a Variable Incentive

We offer the following benefits for you to take advantage of while you are here provided you meet the eligibility requirements under each governing program:

•            401k savings & company match

•            Paid time off

•            Paid holidays

•            Maternity leave

•            Parental leave

•            Military leave

•            Other leaves of absence

•            Health, dental, and vision benefits

•            Health savings accounts

•            Flexible spending accounts

•            Life & disability benefits​

•            Identity theft protection

•            Pet insurance

•            Certain positions may include eligibility for a short term incentive plan

Covetrus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.