About the Job

Who We Are:

Join our team and make an impact! We are a company dedicated to bringing the unconditional love of pets to everyone. Our app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses with the support and security of a global company.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we collaborate closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We have been recognized among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. Our company is agile, fast-growing, and led by experienced professionals from some of the world's most respected tech companies.

Our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones, and we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet lovers, starting with our employees.

This is a hybrid position with the expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office one day per week on Thursdays.*

Meet the Search Experience Team:

The Search Experience team focuses on making it easy for pet parents to find care for their pets, encouraging them to continue using our platform. We ensure we have the right data from our providers and present the right information to pet owners, enabling them to make informed booking decisions and develop lasting relationships with their sitters.

Team Initiatives Include:

• Collecting the right information at the right time from owners to improve our search algorithm while balancing the need for information with the owners' desire for quick results.
• Guiding searchers to contact the best matches by exposing more information about why a provider might be a good fit, ensuring sitter availability, and surfacing the best matches to make the choice clearer.

We're Looking for Engineers Who:

• Are experienced software engineers ready to accelerate our team's initiatives and enhance our customer experience.
• Have opportunities to work on both frontend and backend projects within our team's wide swath of the experience.
• Have experience with Python/Django, React, and React Native, or any similar web application framework.
• Are comfortable tackling projects from end to end and have full stack web application development experience with similar tools.

Requirements:

• Passion for building customer-facing products that improve people's and pets' lives.
• Ability to see their efforts have an outsized impact on the business and customers.
• Enthusiasm for API design, observability, and platform building.
• Eagerness to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer and share that knowledge with team members.
• Excitement to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.
• Ability to partner with product stakeholders to refine requirements, collaborate with others, and drive projects forward.
• Enjoy being part of a great community of pet lovers.

Your Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a professional software developer.
• Comfort working across the entire system from frontend to backend.
• Experience with Python or another backend language.
• Familiarity with relational databases and schema design.
• Passion for automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices.
• Experience with large distributed systems with an emphasis on observability, instrumentation, and monitoring.
• Intuition for balancing "good enough" and polishing.
• Collaborative mindset and alignment with our core values.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• 401k
• Flexible PTO
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs), plus free catered lunches semi-monthly
• Regular team activities performed in person and virtually

Compensation: In the greater Seattle area, the first-year salary range is $118,476-$152,686. Additionally, we offer benefits to full-time employees. The cash compensation for this role will depend on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.