Destination Pet
• $250K — $275K *Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
LOCATION: Remote(US-based. Must work during regular US business hours andparticipatein remote standups and recurring meetings via Teams)
REPORTS TO:YourgiChief Product and Technology Officer
PAY:$250,000 - $275,000/ Salary+ Bonus
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
The engineering organization
Own how teams are shaped and howwork flows, so each team owns a customer journey end to end and can ship without waiting on the others.
Build technical leadership depth. Name owners for cross-cutting decisions, document the engineering strategy, and grow leads who run their teams independently.
AI-first delivery
Make AI-assisted development the default: AI in the standard workflow from spec to code to review, with automated test generation and evals wired into continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Track the impact at the team level: cycle time and throughput against a pre-adoption baseline.
Set the standards and review practices that keep the codebase coherent and secure as AI raises code volume.
Engineering-owned quality
Build a culture where engineers own quality end to end, with automated testing and CI/CD carrying the load.
Make engineering health measurable: bug frequency, change-failure rate, on-call load, uptime, and time-to-merge, tracked quarter over quarter so the org can see its own trend.
YourgiConnect and platform scale
Own the technical plan forYourgiConnect: real-time availability, reservation, and booking against a national network of physical centers, built so adding a marketdoesntmean rebuilding.
Turn shared backend capability into platform services the product teams consume, so each new surface launches faster than the last.
Delivery rhythm and metrics
Own the operating cadence and release train (continuous deployment, feature flags, a rotating release captain, on-call) that lets teams ship independently, and put the DORA delivery metrics (deploy frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, time to restore) in front of leadership.
Partner with Product so engineeringleadsco-own acceptance criteria andownthe technical breakdown.
People, budget, and tooling
Own hiring, leveling, growth, and performance. Build the management bench, with individual-contributor and manager tracks that give strong engineers a path.
Own the budget and toolingspend, invested deliberately across talent and modern tooling.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
Must-haves
12+ years in software engineering, including 6+ years leading engineering organizations through managers and leads, not only managing individual contributors directly
A track recordof building teams that own a product surface end to end, decompose their own work, and grow with the business
Direct experience adopting AI-assisted development across a team, and a clear point of view on how it changes throughput, review practices, and quality
A record of building engineering-owned quality: shifting it upstream through automated testing and CI/CD so teams own it
Experience running remote engineering teams, with the operating rhythm that keeps delivery predictable
Ownership of an engineering budget and headcount plan, fluency making tradeoffs with Product and Finance, and the operating discipline to run on delivery and reliability metrics (DORA or equivalent)
Located in and authorized to work in the US (no visa sponsorship), available during regular US business hours
Preferred Skills
Has scaled AI-assisted development across a full engineering team, with the review and quality gates that make it work
Marketplace, gig-economy, or consumer-app experience, and familiarity with two-sided matching and booking dynamics
Mobile and web at scale, including native app release management (release trains, feature flags, staged rollout)
Platform or core-servicesthinking:turning shared backend capability into an internal product the front-end teams consume
Experience taking a 0-to-1 product from first markets to national scale
What Success Looks Like
First 30-60 days
A clear point of view on how the organization should grow, socialized, with the first moves planned and sequenced so delivery keeps moving
Metrics baseline in place (deploy frequency, lead time to change, change-failure rate, time to restore), so the org has a shared read on where it stands
Named owners for cross-cutting technical decisions, and a clear picture of where the leadership bench needs to deepen
First90 days
The first team is owning its customer journey end to end, with engineering leads co-owning acceptance criteria alongside product
AI-assisted development is the default in the standard workflow, with team-level cycle time and throughput measured against the baseline
Automated testing and CI/CD carry more of the quality load, and change-failure rate is trending down
YourgiConnect has a technical plan through national scale, and the team is shipping against it
BENEFITS & PERKS:
Health, vision, dental, long- & short-term disability, and life insurance
A startup mentality with stable funding
401(k) match
Pet care discounts
Flexible time off
The opportunity to shape and lead an engineering organization asYourgiConnect scales nationally
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