Sr Manager Software Development

As the Software Development Engineering Manager for IDEXX Veterinary Software , you will manage and grow the VetSoft Payments engineering team , a group of experienced, dedicated, and skilled engineers building a mission‑critical, cloud‑native payments platform for the veterinary industry. You will inherit a strong foundation and continue to evolve the platform as customer needs and business priorities grow.

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a distributed engineering team while delivering secure, reliable, and scalable payment capabilities that create lasting value for veterinary practices, corporate partners, and pet owners worldwide.

In this role, you will:

Lead and develop a geographically distributed engineering team across the U.S. and UK, fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Define and maintain a technical roadmap that supports platform scalability, reliability, and security

Partner closely with Product to translate themes and strategy into clear technical execution through agile delivery

Drive high engineering velocity while maintaining a strong focus on quality, reliability, and operational excellence

Establish and evolve engineering standards, development practices, CI/CD pipelines, and test strategies

Champion secure engineering practices and sound operational discipline for systems processing financial transactions

Team with commercial stakeholders such as corporate strategy, marketing, customer support and operations

Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent

What you will need to succeed:

You have experience managing a software development team or in a similar role, including 10 or more years total in Software, 3 or more years in Software Leadership

You have a strong technical background, have personally delivered solutions in a similar technical stack, and willing to stay hands‑on in leading teams

Experience designing, building, and operating mission‑critical SaaS systems

Strong experience with TypeScript / Node.js, React, AWS‑based serverless architectures, and RESTful APIs

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and test strategy

Proficiency with standard development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, etc.

Strong experience using AI coding tools / AI developer productivity tools

What are we looking for?

Advanced knowledge and experience with AWS services and architectures

Experience with designing and implementing mission critical systems that manage large scale data sets.

In-depth experience creating API/Service interfaces.

Experience in payments, fintech, or other regulated environments is a big plus

Experience with event‑driven architectures and multi‑region deployments

Experience significantly improving developer productivity, delivery cadence, and engineering thr