Senior Full Stack Engineer

Dogs, cats, budgies and everything in between - pets deserve the world. They make us want to be better humans. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to build the most engaged and passionate community of pets and pet parents across the world. And we’re looking for talented team mates who can help us do it.

Founded in Sydney, our team of 500+ pet obsessives span Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. We’ve scaled to become one of Australia's top five eComm companies and the no.1 online pet store. But we’re just getting started. Like a whippet who’s spotted their mate across the dog park, our growth is only going to accelerate, as we continue to disrupt the way that pet parents shop.

Excitingly, the pet industry is booming (as in $15 billion kind of booming) and online pet retail is set to grow exponentially in the next five years. So this is a unique career opportunity to be part of our epic growth story.

The opportunity We're looking for a highly skilled and passionate Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our Customer Tribe, which builds and maintains the core applications that serve millions of customers every day on one of Australia's largest e-commerce platforms.

This is a hands-on, highly technical role where you'll work in a fast-paced environment alongside a talented squad of engineers, a product manager, a QA engineer, and a designer. You'll be a key contributor to our customer-facing systems, from the website and app to our critical communication channels.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from designing and building robust solutions to deploying and monitoring them in production.
• Tackle complex technical challenges with a high degree of autonomy, bringing innovative and "outside-the-box" solutions to the team.
• Collaborate closely with your squad to define technical requirements and architect scalable, high-performance systems.
• Write clean, well-tested code in our primary stack, while also maintaining and modernizing our legacy applications.
• Instill a culture of strong ownership and accountability for the software you build.
• Be a champion for the customer experience, ensuring that every technical decision you make has a positive impact on the end user.
• Understand the critical role of monitoring and observability and ensure our applications are well-instrumented.

The Ideal Toolbox

• Significant hands-on experience in full stack software engineering, with a strong focus on building scalable and resilient applications.
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with backend experience in NestJS and Java.
• Good understanding of testing frameworks like Jest, as well as performance testing and E2E testing.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms, ideally with Google Cloud (GCP) or AWS.
• Proven knowledge of software architecture and best practices for building cloud-native applications.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and an understanding of how to automate and improve deployment processes.
• A solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and the tools used to ensure application health and performance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

About You

• A strong passion for engineering and a curiosity that drives you to continuously learn and improve your craft.
• A customer-first mindset where you care deeply about the user experience, not just the technical solution.
• A self-starter who thrives on autonomy, is confident in their ability to solve complex problems, and takes pride in their work.
• Embraces new technology, particularly AI, and has a strong curiosity for how it can be applied to solve real-world problems.
• Someone who actively looks for new solutions and challenges the status quo.

Role location

At Pet Circle, our Philippines team works fully remotely. You’ll be part of a highly autonomous and empowered group, trusted to deliver impact while working from your home office. We stay closely connected through digital collaboration and regular team rhythms, so you’ll always feel supported while enjoying the flexibility of remote work.

Juicy perks

• Heaps of development opportunities - stretch projects, secondments and unlimited learning courses via Go1
• Product sample giveaways
• Pawrental leave and wellbeing leave
• Team charity volunteer days
• Classpass subsidy

Why Join?

We Reckon Our Mission To Help The World Pet Better Is An Important One, But Also An Incredibly Fun And Rewarding One. Becoming a Pet Circler Means You’re Committed To Help Shape An Entire Industry - It’s Pretty Exciting Stuff. Here’s What We Stand For

• We're better together
• We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds
• Pets matter' so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
• We're instinctively curious. Always.

Belong at Pet Circle

Our unique perspectives and expertise is our superpower - we value diversity in all forms. So, no matter your background, please apply if this role makes you excited to bring your full self to work each day.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Retail

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