Application Engineer

As part of the Mars Petcare family of businesses, Mars Veterinary Health is a global network of veterinary practices made possible by 75,000 Associates who care for millions of pets across nearly 3,000 clinics in more than 20 countries each year. We are committed to leveraging our reach to make a long-term positive impact on people, pets, and the planet and know our Purpose – A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS – starts with the people who care for them. We strive to offer unparalleled veterinary care for pets by first and foremost enabling and empowering our Associates to do what they love, whether in primary, specialty, and emergency care or management and leadership.

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Compensation is determined based on education, experience, and other relevant credentials. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and market competitiveness.

This role requires associates to work out of a MVH North America hub location – Vancouver, WA

Why This Role Matters

The Application Engineer is the technical owner for feature delivery within their assigned product pillar. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Engineering for the pillar, this role serves as the connection between business intent and delivered software: partnering with product teams to convert business requirements into technical requirements and designs, then working alongside offshore vendor engineering teams to see those designs built, released, and supported in production.

The Application Engineer balances technical depth with the coordination skills required in a distributed delivery model. This role defines what good looks like before work begins, holds the quality line on what comes back, and ensures delivered features align with the pillar's architecture vision, technical roadmap, and operational support model.

You Will

• Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. embedding quality, responsibility, and efficiency in all work and decisions
• Partner with product management, business analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications, solution designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Provide technical feasibility assessments, effort estimates, and architectural guidance to support product prioritization, planning, and delivery decisions.
• Define technical requirements, integration contracts, data flows, and implementation expectations for distributed and contracted engineering delivery teams.
• Oversee technical delivery by external engineering partners, providing clarification, reviewing implementation quality, and ensuring deliverables meet established architectural, security, and coding standards.
• Evaluate completed engineering deliverables against defined acceptance criteria and quality gates, recommending technical acceptance or escalating gaps requiring remediation.
• Ensure application development aligns with established architecture standards, technical roadmaps, security requirements, and long-term maintainability objectives.
• Define operational readiness requirements for new features, including monitoring, observability, alerting, support documentation, and production stabilization.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and external delivery teams to identify technical dependencies, resolve implementation challenges, and maintain alignment across distributed delivery efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying technical debt, performance and reliability opportunities, and reusable engineering practices. Maintain hands-on technical proficiency through prototyping, technical investigations, and critical fixes as needed.

Your Experience Should Include

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including designing, developing, and delivering applications or features into production environments.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications, solution designs, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Proficiency in C#/.NET and TypeScript/Angular application development, with experience building and supporting applications in Microsoft Azure environments.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Key Vault, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Experience with Git-based source control, pull request reviews, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and modern software development practices.
• Understanding of application architecture, API integrations, data flows, security practices, and enterprise application design principles.
• Experience reviewing code, evaluating technical implementations, and identifying quality, performance, security, and maintainability concerns.
• Working knowledge of application observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently, manage competing technical priorities, and collaborate effectively across product, engineering, and business teams.

Salary range: $90,300- $162,258

Compensation is determined based on education, experience, and other relevant credentials. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and market competitiveness.

As  part of the Mars Petcare family of businesses, Mars Veterinary Health is a global network of veterinary practices made possible by 75,000 Associates who care for millions of pets across nearly 3,000 clinics in more than 20 countries each year. We are committed to leveraging our reach to make a long-term positive impact on people, pets, and the planet and know our Purpose – A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS – starts with the people who care for them. We strive to offer unparalleled veterinary care for pets by first and foremost enabling and empowering our Associates to do what they love, whether in primary, specialty, and emergency care or management and leadership.

This role requires associates to work out of a MVH North America hub location – Vancouver, WA

Why This Role Matters

The Application Engineer is the technical owner for feature delivery within their assigned product pillar. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Engineering for the pillar, this role serves as the connection between business intent and delivered software: partnering with product teams to convert business requirements into technical requirements and designs, then working alongside offshore vendor engineering teams to see those designs built, released, and supported in production.

The Application Engineer balances technical depth with the coordination skills required in a distributed delivery model. This role defines what good looks like before work begins, holds the quality line on what comes back, and ensures delivered features align with the pillar's architecture vision, technical roadmap, and operational support model.

You Will

• Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. embedding quality, responsibility, and efficiency in all work and decisions
• Partner with product management, business analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications, solution designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Provide technical feasibility assessments, effort estimates, and architectural guidance to support product prioritization, planning, and delivery decisions.
• Define technical requirements, integration contracts, data flows, and implementation expectations for distributed and contracted engineering delivery teams.
• Oversee technical delivery by external engineering partners, providing clarification, reviewing implementation quality, and ensuring deliverables meet established architectural, security, and coding standards.
• Evaluate completed engineering deliverables against defined acceptance criteria and quality gates, recommending technical acceptance or escalating gaps requiring remediation.
• Ensure application development aligns with established architecture standards, technical roadmaps, security requirements, and long-term maintainability objectives.
• Define operational readiness requirements for new features, including monitoring, observability, alerting, support documentation, and production stabilization.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and external delivery teams to identify technical dependencies, resolve implementation challenges, and maintain alignment across distributed delivery efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying technical debt, performance and reliability opportunities, and reusable engineering practices. Maintain hands-on technical proficiency through prototyping, technical investigations, and critical fixes as needed.

Your Experience Should Include

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including designing, developing, and delivering applications or features into production environments.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications, solution designs, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Proficiency in C#/.NET and TypeScript/Angular application development, with experience building and supporting applications in Microsoft Azure environments.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Key Vault, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Experience with Git-based source control, pull request reviews, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and modern software development practices.
• Understanding of application architecture, API integrations, data flows, security practices, and enterprise application design principles.
• Experience reviewing code, evaluating technical implementations, and identifying quality, performance, security, and maintainability concerns.
• Working knowledge of application observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently, manage competing technical priorities, and collaborate effectively across product, engineering, and business teams.

Salary range: $90,300- $162,258

Compensation is determined based on education, experience, and other relevant credentials. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and market competitiveness.

Does this sound like you? Want to join an organization that values Quality, Efficiency, Responsibility, Mutuality, and Freedom? Apply today to be considered and join us to advance our mission to create A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

What We Offer You:

• Competitive Pay & Time Off – Competitive salary, flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive Health Coverage – Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA/HRA, virtual healthcare, Second Opinion Coverage, and Health Advocate support.

• Wellness & Preventive Care – Smart Rewards wellness incentives, mental health resources, diabetes and weight management support, and digital exercise therapy.

• Family & Caregiving Support – Fertility and family-building benefits, back-up care, and family support resources.

• Financial Benefits – 401(k) savings plan with company match, commuter benefits, and student debt relief (for eligible full-time DVMs).

• Protection & Security – Company-paid life and short- and long-term disability insurance, plus legal and identity protection plans.

• Additional Coverage Options – Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity benefits.

• Professional Development – Continuing education allowance and MED hours for eligible positions.

• Discounts & Perks – Discounts on Mars, Royal Canin, fitness, cellular services, and more.

Special Working Considerations:
• Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
• Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.
• The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.
• Environment where pets are present

WE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Mars Veterinary Health (MVH)® strongly supports and values the uniqueness of all individuals and promotes a work environment where diversity is embraced. MVH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. MVH complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every MVH location.