Engineering Manager

We’relooking for an Engineering Manager who still loves building—someone who wants to stay technical while leading teams to solve real-world problems using AI.This roleis responsibleforowning and evolving criticalhigh volumeparts of our flagship veterinary SaaS product.You’llbe improving the lives of many thousands of veterinary practice staff members globally.We are embedding AI directly into clinicalworkflowsreducing admin time for vetssignificantly.

Auckland is home to IDEXX’sglobal Software Centre of Excellence, where we design, build, andoperatea portfolio of cloud-native platforms and applications that support veterinary professionals worldwide.

You’llleada group ofhigh-performing engineeringsquads.You willoperateat the intersection ofpeopleleadership, software architecture, and delivery excellence.You will remain deeply engaged in technical direction,reviewing,prototypingandoccasionally contributing directly.Working with modern technologies including TypeScript, Go, and cloud-native architectures, you will guideteamsbuilding resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems.You’llapply your curiosity as we evolvedeveloper experience in this new world of agentic engineering. 

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery 

• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional engineering squadsdelivering complete,endtoendvalue streams.You’llbe supported by leaders who believe engineers should own solutions, with managers setting direction. 

• Provide technical leadership and oversight across multiple teams, ensuring software quality, architectural alignment, and adherence to platform standards.

• Partner closely with Product,Designand other Engineering leaders to align execution with the product roadmap and broader technical strategy.

Customer & Product Impact

• Own and delivercritical product experiences which enableour customers to streamline and grow their veterinary practices businesses.

• As we scale through growth, ensure solutions meet the reliability, performance, and scalability expectations ofourenterprise veterinary customers.Evolving a successful monolithic system toward domain-oriented architecture and reducing operational toil through AI and automation.

• Leadpractical, responsible adoption of AI capabilities within theproductto drive measurable efficiency gains.

Engineering Excellence

• Set and uphold a high bar for engineering practices, includingrapid innovation through short feedback cycles, automated testing, and maintainable codebases. 

• We areriding the wave of agentic engineering, join us as weexperimentand reimagine how we work asa product teamwith tools likeclaudecode, cursor,figmamakeetc.

WhatYou’llBring

• Proven experience as anEngineering Managerwithin a modern software environment

• Strong ability to lead, influence, and align technical teams through both leadership presence and technical credibility

• Demonstrated experience evolving engineering culture and processes toward higher engagement, agility, automated testing, andDevSecOpsmaturity

• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and modern software design principles

• Working knowledge of modern web and backend technologies (e.g.React, Go, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, Java), sufficient to guide architectural and delivery decisions

• Experienceoperatingin Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models)

• Prior experience in ascaled SaaS environmentis highly desirable

What you can expect from us:

• Structured onboarding, induction, ongoingtrainingand transparent performance driven professional development

• Rewarding salary packages including lucrative incentive schemes for all

• Continuous L&D (both internal and externally)

• Hybrid working with a great office space to collaborate - including a gym androof topbar!

• Coffee+ Fruit+FoodTruck Friday

• Dog friendly office

• Fully subsidized Southern Cross Health insurance

• Part subsidized parking viaParkable

If you wantworkwith real purpose in a growing company solving key challenges in the animal health industry with innovative cloud software, this is the opportunity for you! 

So, what is IDEXX Veterinary Software?

Here inAucklandwe develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications.We’rebuilding a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technicalexpertiseto deliver. Solutions for practice management (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more.We’reon a mission to build the best health technology business and we need you to help us do it! You can learn more about IDEXX Veterinary Software here: https://careers.idexx.com/us/en/veterinary-software

At IDEXX we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, IDEXX Veterinary Software solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Clie