# Staff Engineer

As a Staff Engineer you will set the technical direction for IDEXX’s veterinary software platforms, shaping architecture and engineering practices across multiple squads while staying hands-on in the code. This is a hybrid role based in Auckland, with a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. You’ll help lead how we adopt agentic coding and AI-assisted development across the software lifecycle. The Veterinary Software Engineering department is working on the first fully integrated vertical SaaS platform for Animal Health. Our global Software Centre of Excellence designs, builds, and operates a portfolio that includes Patient Management, Client Communications, Business Intelligence, and Payment Services, spanning cloud-native platforms. In this role You’ll embrace and champion agentic coding and AI-assisted development, helping reimagine how software is designed, specified, verified, and operated. You’ll lead architecture and design for complex systems that are robust, scalable, and simple to maintain, and you’ll advocate for simplicity in both design and code. You’ll take accountability for architectural approvals, including external interfaces such as APIs and database access, and chan

- **Id**: 4001213
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/idexx-laboratories-staff-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Auckland, New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T03:35:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T03:12:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5976
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Health insurance, Hybrid work, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Science

## Company

- **Id**: 5908
- **Name**: IDEXX Laboratories
- **Domain**: idexx.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/idexx-laboratories>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.719
- **Repost share**: 0.031
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **New Zealand** — Iso: NZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:35:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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