💰 $195,000 - $210,000 🌍 New York City, New York, United States 📅 06/14/2023
Kinship is unlocking a new world for you and your pet. Because, if you’re like
us, your pet _is_ your world. Our family of brands is continuously working to
challenge preconceived notions, evolve our environments, and (re)build a
universe that supports and centers on people and their pets—all with the power
of Mars Petcare behind us. Like most families, we have different interests and
expertise. But we all come together with a common purpose and love of
pets—because they’re our kin too.
* [The Kin](https://www.thewildest.com/the-kin) is a subscription-based app designed to make pet parenting _actually_ easier—with features like 24/7 access to experts and curated content, personalized to both pets and their parents.
* [Adopt a Pet](https://www.adoptapet.com/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=19652064620&utm_content=143716145217&utm_term=adoptapet&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmZejBhC_ARIsAGhCqnc-tEmTlzP0GNpPICr2fNk6xmWGKLpfoKOMw8WiWT1s5M5YHukk07MaAuVPEALw_wcB) is a platform that connects hopeful pet parents, shelters, rescues, and rehomers—all with the goal of helping people and pets find each other, by improving the adoption process for everyone involved.
* [The Wildest ](https://www.thewildest.com/signup-lp?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=12804341933&utm_content=124179845187&utm_term=thewildest&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmZejBhC_ARIsAGhCqnf8q_2uneuN2c0p74BFICohdxogLn4RPvm6BIuC1v3sJxDoRdTot7QaAhjCEALw_wcB)is one site that brings together culture, care, and content to help real people pet parent (and keep their cool)— with the help of product recs, vet advice, training tips, articles, interviews, and more.
* [PetExec ](https://www.petexec.net/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmZejBhC_ARIsAGhCqndwLfeC_VcuPWZFIi-CZOIE0CyceY06HvO0YixZp33QIbDRxjiIK_MaAmasEALw_wcB)is the world's leading tool for pet care businesses, helping teams of all sizes more efficiently manage their daycare, boarding, grooming, and training operations. So they can spend more time on pets.
**OUR TEAM**
The Kinship Engineering team is creating the next generation platform for pet
parents to care for their pets in one easy to use place. We are a pioneer in
TeleHealth for pets and are expanding our mission to service all the needs of
our pet parent community. As part of our team, your ideas, design and code
will make a real difference in the growing field of pet care technology. This
is an exciting time to join Kinship as we scale out our products and create
the pet care platform of the future.
We are looking for a strong Principal Software Engineer to play a critical
role in our technology organization and partner closely with our business,
product and engineering teams to design, build, manage and scale the
capabilities that power our pet care platform. If you are looking for an
opportunity to make a positive impact while transforming an industry with tech
solutions, we want to hear from you!.
**RESPONSIBILITIES:**
* Develop software that connects customers to value
* Lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing technologies for our platform
* Collaborate closely with and mentor multiple teams of engineers
* Taking ownership of services and applications at scale
* Define architectural patterns that establish conventions for our products and services
* Interact with designers and product manager to determine best ways to implement features
**As the Principal Software Engineer, you will report to the Head of
Engineering.**
**TECHNICAL SKILLS:**
* Comfortable laying foundational code
* 5+ years mobile development experience
* 3+ years experience with React Native
* Experience creating consumer facing production mobile applications using React Native
* Experience evaluating performance and usability of mobile applications and driving improvements
* Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
* Expertise using industry standard methodologies (Github, Gitflow, CI, CD, etc)
* Experience defining technical direction and architecture
* Experience evaluating and recommending tools and technologies
* Comfortable deploying software to major cloud platforms (AWS, Heroku, GCP, etc)
* Experience mentoring other software engineers
* Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, mySQL, etc.)
* Knowledge of authentication and authorization approaches
* Experience with common development tools such as Node, Yarn, NPM, etc.
**CULTURAL COMPETENCIES**
In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who represent the
values we aim to uphold in our everyday work, and in how we approach each
other: **Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All.** In addition,
each Mars Associate is guided by [The Five
Principles](https://www.mars.com/about/five-principles): Quality,
Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom.
**COMPENSATION**
The New York, New York base salary range for this position is $195,000 -
$210,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Total compensation will
include bonus incentives and benefits. Kinship provides Full Time Employees
(Associates) benefits which may include health insurance, retirement plan
benefits, eligibility for Mars discounts, unlimited paid time off and access
to other benefit programs. Eligibility for Kinship benefits is determined
under the terms of the applicable Kinship Benefits plan at a person's date of
hire.
