Full Stack Engineer at Veterinary Practice Partners

Company Description:

Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) is a nationwide veterinary community revolutionizing vet practice ownership and support. With an expansive network of doctor partners and co-owned animal hospitals nationwide, VPP is an established partner of choice. Through its co-ownership model, VPP provides operational support across technology, finance, marketing, learning and development, recruiting, and HR so that veterinarians can focus on providing high-quality patient care and fostering a strong culture at their individual practices. VPP has over 180 (and counting) partner hospitals with 2,500+ employees and continued growth. VPP is a dynamic, profitable, growth company with strong financial private equity backing. For more information on Veterinary Practice Partners, visit www.vetpracticepartners.com.

Summary:

VPP is building an AI-enabled platform to help our community deliver the highest-quality care efficiently. Our software will intelligently support staff and clinicians to operate at peak performance. We’re looking for a hands-on Full-Stack Developer to translate our vision into production-grade APIs, data models, and front-end integrations that integrate with various third-party applications. You’ll partner closely with veterinarians, staff, and engineers in a try/fail-fast, AI-driven development culture.

What you’ll do:

• Own product delivery: Convert user stories into well-designed services, APIs, data models, and UI integrations across web, tablet, and phone.
• Build extensible third-party integrations: Build and maintain integrations with Practice Information Management Systems (PIMS), external lab vendors, payment processors, and messaging providers.
• Support data and workflow needs: Model workflow-heavy domains with clear states, auditability, and role-based permissions.
• Integrate humans with AI: productionize and deploy AI models into human-in-the-loop flows.
• Ensure quality & observability: Add automated tests, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, deployed in a CI/CD workflow.
• Bolster security & compliance: Implement privacy-by-design, secrets management, least-privilege access, encryption in transit at/rest, and secure data retention practices.
• Establish DevOps: Containerize services (Docker), define IaC, and run in cloud environments. Contribute to runbooks and incident response.
• Empower UI/UX: Work closely with our UI/UX developer on API contracts and edge cases.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics: Partner with Data Scientists to define and monitor KPIs and develop data models and data provisioning services that enable deep analytics of our operations and platform.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operation production web applications end-to-end in modern stacks.
• Proficiency in one or more back-end languages (Node.js/TypeScript, Python) and SQL (Postgres or similar).
• Experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs, data models, transactions, and migrations.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Docker containers, CI/CD, and environment configuration.
• Familiar with front-end frameworks (React) and component-driven integration with design systems.
• Strong grounding in testing, observability, and performance profiling.
• Track record shipping workflow-heavy products with permissions, statuses/approvals, and audit trails.
• Background in event-driven architectures (queues/streams), idempotency, and integration resiliency patterns.
• Metrics-driven development mindset with a data-first approach to problem solving.
• A team player who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Extreme growth mindset; deep humility with unwavering resolve to drive exceptional performance.
  
  

Ideal Candidates will Possess:

• Background in healthcare or veterinary services; familiarity with PIMS or EHR integrations or charging/billing systems.
• Exposure to ML model serving.
• Knowledge of security practices for PHI-like or sensitive operational data, including threat modeling and SOC2/HIPAA-adjacent controls.
• Comfort contributing across the stack, from data modeling and APIs to light front-end work.
  
  

Physical Requirements

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.

• The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the The employee needs to occasionally move about home office to access office machinery, stationary tools, etc.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. Hearing and visual acuity are also required.
• The employee will constantly be operating a computer and other office
• The employee may occasionally be required to lift and or move up to 10lbs by
  
  

Notes:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to perform the essential functions.

• This job description describes the ideal candidate for this position and in no way implies
• any limits to a person’s desire to apply.
• To meet the needs of the company, employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described
• Any duties are subject to change at any
• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship.
• This position pays an annual salary of $150,000 to $175,000 dependent upon experience.
  
  

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any legally protected characteristic.