# Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Wag!

- Company: Wag!
- What the company does: Connect with top-rated local dog walkers and pet care providers who offer dog walking, sitting, boarding, drop-ins, and more. Book and pay securely. Backed by Battery and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://wagwalking.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://wagwalking.bamboohr.com/careers/125
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wag-senior-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend engineering team and help develop products for millions of pets and the humans who love them. This position involves enhancing our core backend API, as well as supporting our cloud infrastructure and associated backend services. We are looking for someone who thrives in a small, fast-paced team environment, and is comfortable working across the stack to solve challenging problems and create exceptional products. We build with AI coding agents every day.

## What they're looking for

- Take ownership of the backend platform , from the client-facing API schema to the server and database infrastructure in AWS
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions, and explain the tradeoffs
- Break down features into releasable components, estimate release schedules, and collaborate with the team
- Design and implement core products within our PHP and Laravel API, working from an OpenAPI specification in a domain-driven, service and repository architecture
- Build and enhance internal backend systems in Python , including our AWS Lambda services, and collaborate with other business units
- Support the production infrastructure by implementing and maintaining AWS services using Terraform , including ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Parameter Store, CloudWatch, and IAM

Tags: Engineering