Senior Software Engineer
Goose
Software Engineering
Washington, DC, USA · Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on May 28, 2026
About Goose
Goose is building the operating system for multi-service pet care businesses — boarding, daycare, grooming, and training. Our platform streamlines operations, enhances the customer experience, and drives revenue growth. Headquartered in Chicago, we blend modern technology with industry know-how to serve an essential but historically underserved market.
About the role
As Goose scales its platform for multi-service pet care businesses, we’re investing heavily in the systems powering memberships, package credits, promotions, and digital subscription experiences. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys evolving and scaling mature products, improving operational reliability, and owning systems that directly impact customer growth, retention, and business performance.
What you'll do
- Own the next generation of Goose’s non-card payments and digital subscription systems.
- Build on and evolve existing products powering memberships, package credits, promotions, and related customer lifecycle experiences.
- Improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational maturity across the systems and workflows you own.
- Build reliable, well-tested, and maintainable software, including secure APIs and user-facing product experiences.
- Design and maintain backend workflows and asynchronous processing systems that support recurring, scheduled, and event-driven operations.
- Lead integrations with external systems, payment providers, and third-party platforms.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve development velocity, software quality, debugging, testing, documentation, and operational efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to incorporate AI-powered functionality and workflows into customer-facing product experiences.
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, operations, and engineering teams to refine and scale existing customer experiences.
- Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and operational inefficiencies, and proactively drive improvements.
- Improve observability, reliability, incident response, and developer workflows across the platform.
- Create and maintain clear technical and product documentation for the systems and experiences you own.
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
Who you are
- Passionate about improving and scaling real-world products with active users and operational complexity.
- Comfortable stepping into existing systems, identifying gaps, and driving pragmatic improvements over time.
- Able to independently own major technical areas and drive projects from concept through long-term operation.
- A strong collaborator who can balance speed, quality, and maintainability in a fast-moving startup environment.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience building scalable full-stack or backend-heavy systems.
- Strong experience designing and operating production systems and APIs.
- Experience evolving and scaling existing products and systems beyond initial launch.
- Experience building workflow-driven systems involving scheduled processing, background jobs, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience working on subscription systems, billing platforms, transactional workflows, or digital commerce products.
- Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, and SQL-based systems.
- Experience with AWS-based cloud-native architectures and modern observability tooling.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools within engineering workflows.
- Experience incorporating AI-powered functionality or experiences into customer-facing products.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and operational best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively across functions.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, Turborepo, MUI
- Backend: Node.js, Express, Prisma, Serverless
- Database: Postgres (Aurora), Redshift, DynamoDB, S3
- Compute: Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions
- AI: Kiro, Claude, Bedrock, OpenAI
- Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, CDK
- Cloud Platform: AWS (API Gateway, Cognito, EventBridge, CloudFront, CloudWatch)
What we offer
- Competitive salary & meaningful equity
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance: 85% coverage for employees, 60% coverage for dependents
- Unlimited PTO (vacation, sick, personal, plus 5 company holidays)
- Opportunities for professional development and growth
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment