Who we are: Yourgi is on a mission to become Earth's most trusted pet care connector, connecting pet parents with a reliable local network of certified professionals, pet resorts, and veterinary centers. Backed by a passionate team, our mission is to make pet care simple, accessible, and joyful for all. Because pets aren't just animals—they're family.
Yourgi is on a mission to become Earth’s most trusted pet care connector. We connect pet parents with a reliable network of care, from independent local pros to full-service pet resorts and veterinary centers, and we design every step to be simple, accessible, and trustworthy. Because pets aren’t just animals, they’re family.
We connect pet parents to two kinds of supply. On our marketplace, we match them with independent service pros for grooming, boarding, training, and daycare, and those pros run their business on Yourgi Pro. Through Yourgi Connect, we link pet parents directly into brick-and-mortar centers, including Destination Pet, Four Walls, and a growing national network, where they can check live availability, reserve a spot, and book in real time.
Yourgi Connect is a true 0-to-1 opportunity: a new product that turns a national network of physical centers into online, bookable inventory, and this role helps shape how it gets built from the ground up. We run on web and native iOS and Android apps, for pet parents on one side and the pros and centers who serve them on the other. We’re live in five markets and adding more. The next chapter is scaling how we build it.
We’re looking for a VP of Engineering to lead our engineering organization: roughly 30 engineers building our consumer app, provider tools, matching and booking systems, and marketplace surfaces. You’ll report to the Chief Product & Technology Officer with full accountability for how engineering is structured, ships, and grows.
This is a build-and-scale role. Yourgi Connect is a 0-to-1 product that turns a national network of physical centers into online, bookable inventory, and it needs engineering leadership that can take it from first markets to national scale. The marketplace keeps growing alongside it, and the organization has to grow with both: teams that own a customer journey end to end, AI-assisted development as the default, and quality built in from the start. You’ll set the operating rhythm, build and coach a management bench, and design the org as it scales. You’ll have direct authority over org design and executive support to invest.
LOCATION: Remote (US-based. Must work during regular US business hours and participate in remote standups and recurring meetings via Teams)
REPORTS TO: Yourgi Chief Product and Technology Officer
PAY: $250,000 - $275,000/ Salary + Bonus
The engineering organization
Engineering-owned quality
Make engineering health measurable: bug frequency, change-failure rate, on-call load, uptime, and time-to-merge, tracked quarter over quarter so the org can see its own trend.
Yourgi Connect and platform scale
Own the technical plan for Yourgi Connect: real-time availability, reservation, and booking against a national network of physical centers, built so adding a market doesn’t mean rebuilding.
Delivery rhythm and metrics
Own the operating cadence and release train (continuous deployment, feature flags, a rotating release captain, on-call) that lets teams ship independently, and put the DORA delivery metrics (deploy frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, time to restore) in front of leadership.
People, budget, and tooling
Own hiring, leveling, growth, and performance. Build the management bench, with individual-contributor and manager tracks that give strong engineers a path.
Direct experience adopting AI-assisted development across a team, and a clear point of view on how it changes throughput, review practices, and quality
Marketplace, gig-economy, or consumer-app experience, and familiarity with two-sided matching and booking dynamics
Mobile and web at scale, including native app release management (release trains, feature flags, staged rollout)
Metrics baseline in place (deploy frequency, lead time to change, change-failure rate, time to restore), so the org has a shared read on where it stands
Health, vision, dental, long- & short-term disability, and life insurance
Yourgi affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
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At Yourgi, we're all about creating a workplace that's bursting with diversity and inclusivity. We don't play favorites or judge folks based on skin color, religion, gender, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics. Our hiring decisions are solely based on what you can bring to the team. So, we're throwing the door wide open for all like-minded candidates who believe in celebrating and honoring diversity and inclusion. Ready to join our pack?
