OUR TEAM 

The Wildest is a site designed to help pet parents keep their cool. It’s the destination for people with pets, with free tools and fun editorial content. On The Wildest, you’ll find free training, breed-specific tips, tailored to-do lists, product reviews, articles on pet culture, expert advice, 24/7 access to vet pros, and the occasional cat astrology article. Basically, we've got everything you need to ace it for your animal, whether you’re new to pet parenting or a zoologist in the making. 

We are the department that creates user experiences and tools to improve the lives of pets. Our teams consist of engineers focusing on front-end, back-end, and QA. Creating the best possible products using data-driven decision making, to essentially be a window into the Kinship ecosystem, working lockstep with our other departments including Product, Data & Analytics, Growth, Marketing, and HW.

HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on this Kinship Engineering team, you’ll collaborate with other engineers, including offshore and in-house to create the best customer experience possible. This role is a key position to accomplish functions such as:

• Integrations with other Kinship technologies
• Staying up to date with the latest libraries and frameworks
• Maintaining high quality in both code and customer experience
• Assisting engineers and representation of the back-end status
• Working with the product team and aligning on schedules and roadmap
• Working closely with the QA team to assure comprehensive testing
• Working with the Data & Analytics team as well as within OneKinship team to make sure we’re as data-driven as possible

THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. 

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
• You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
• You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 7+ years of experience in software/web development (with focus on Javascript-related tech)
• Experience with SSG (gatsby, nextJS)
• Comfortable or Fluent in Typescript, ReactJS, Redux
• Experience in building scalable platforms using NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL, headless CMS
• Hands on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or comparable public cloud
• Good understanding of modern CI/CD solutions
• Understanding of end-to-end deployment architecture including experience with CDNs, networking, distributed systems that yields high availability
• Comfortable with open source technologies and ability to configure/tweak them for scale
• Experience in building APIs, including best practices, especially for NodeJS
• Comfortable with modern web debugging tools
• Propensity toward assisting and/or mentoring less experienced team members

Bonus:

• Hands on experience building high scale micro-services
• Good understanding of modern cloud friendly devops tools, terraform, Infrastructure as Code
• Good understanding of architectural tradeoffs optimized for scale and throughput