We’re looking 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 role is responsible for owning and evolving critical high volume parts of our flagship veterinary SaaS product. You’ll be improving the lives of many thousands of veterinary practice staff members globally. We are embedding AI directly into clinical workflows reducing admin time for vets significantly.

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

You’ll lead a group of high-performing engineering squads. You will operate at the intersection of people leadership, software architecture, and delivery excellence. You will remain deeply engaged in technical direction, reviewing, prototyping and occasionally contributing directly. Working with modern technologies including TypeScript, Go, and cloud-native architectures, you will guide teams building resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems. You’ll apply your curiosity as we evolve developer experience in this new world of agentic engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional engineering squads delivering complete, end to end value streams. You’ll be 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, Design and other Engineering leaders to align execution with the product roadmap and broader technical strategy.

Customer & Product Impact

• Own and deliver critical product experiences which enable our customers to streamline and grow their veterinary practices businesses.

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

• Lead practical, responsible adoption of AI capabilities within the product to drive measurable efficiency gains.

Engineering Excellence

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

• We are riding the wave of agentic engineering, join us as we experiment and reimagine how we work as a product team with tools like claude code, cursor, figma make etc.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager within 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, and DevSecOps maturity

• 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

• Experience operating in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models)

• Prior experience in a scaled SaaS environment is highly desirable

What you can expect from us:

• Structured onboarding, induction, ongoing training and 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 and roof top bar!

• Coffee + Fruit + Food Truck Friday

• Dog friendly office

• Fully subsidized Southern Cross Health insurance

• Part subsidized parking via Parkable

If you want work with 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 in Auckland we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re building a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technical expertise to deliver. Solutions for practice management (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more. We’re on 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. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

Why IDEXX