Ollie was born with the mission of improving the lives of pets and pet parents nationwide. We make human-grade pet food, tailored for each dog’s nutritional needs, and deliver directly to our customers’ doors. Through Ollie’s carefully crafted meals and health services for members, dogs can truly live their healthiest, happiest lives.
As a member of our growing team, you’ll take part in a company culture that cares deeply about its work and its team members.
Ollie is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer who thrives in a small team and is excited to learn from teammates in a collaborative environment. This position is great for you if you are a curious, collaborative, and open-minded engineer. You have worked across varying Frontend frameworks, libraries, Content Management Systems and understand how to build a truly self-serviceable UI/UX to empower your Product partners to work efficiently. You also have hands-on experience working with backend systems, APIs, and are comfortable making incremental backend changes to support our Frontend. You love programming and are passionate about making a better product. You enjoy delivering reliable, performant, well-tested code that powers all your clients!
This is a remote role based in the Northeast U.S., with monthly in-person co-working sessions. The position collaborates across the organization and reports to the Technical Lead, Web.
What You'll Do:
- Develop, refactor, and maintain our application across the frontend and CMS to enable Product to fully self-service and run AB tests efficiently.
- Collaborate closely with Product to iterate on upcoming AB tests & ideas.
- Support our customers through optimizations to our onboarding experience.
- Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle- from planning and design to implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers in an agile environment to deliver high-quality, impactful features.
- Make incremental backend contributions as needed to support both frontend and product requirements.
- Write reliable, performant, and well-tested code that scales with our growing business.
- Continuously improve existing systems through refactoring, performance optimization, and automation.
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical discussions to uphold best practices and foster team learning.
- Troubleshoot production issues and help maintain a stable and resilient platform.
- Stay curious- explore new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve developer experience and product quality.
Who You Are:
- You have 5+ years of professional experience building applications using React (NextJS experience is a plus).
- You have 2+ years Professional experience working server-side (Django preferred, Node accepted).
- You have 2+ years of experience building & integrating with API systems.
- You have at least 2 years of experience working with a Content Management System.
- You have strong technical knowledge and deep understanding of time/maintainability/quality trade-offsYou have experience writing unit tests
- You have experience with using version control (git, svn, etc.)
- You have excellent communication & collaboration skills
- You’re a self-starter, positive and excited to work with a small dedicated team
- You are passionate about using technology to streamline business processes
Bonus Points if:
- You’re a dog owner or lover
- You have experience with NextJS
- You have experience using a relational database (ex. PostgreSQL)
- You have experience with Python/Django
- You have experience with Shopify
- You have experience with Docker/Containerization
- You are an open source community contributor
What You'll Get:
- Competitive salary
- Sponsored 401k program with employer match up to 4%
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental and vision
- Unlimited vacation policy that you're encouraged to use
- Paid parental leave
- 1-week paw-ternity leave for new dog parents
- Free Ollie subscription
- Inspiring pack members!
What We Value:
Keeping Dogs At The Heart
Our profound love for dogs unites us and drives and inspires every aspect of our business. We wholeheartedly believe dogs make us better in life and at work.
Being Courageous And Kind
We create a safe, inclusive space for everyone to show up as their authentic selves. We check our egos at the door and speak our minds. We embrace diverse backgrounds and perspectives as they bring new and different ideas and ways of working together.
Setting New Standards
We believe in continually raising the bar, never settling for less than our best as a team and individuals. We keep improving from the quality of our products to our customer experience to how we work.
Making Ollie The Best Chapter
We are building an impactful business while making memorable experiences with one another. We celebrate our successes, learn from our failures, and enjoy our collective journey. Our time at Ollie should be a milestone in our careers.
If you'd like to stand out, tell us in your cover letter why you're interested in joining Ollie and how your skills match the responsibilities detailed in this posting.
Ollie embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Ollie is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please include that in your application.
