Careers at PawPlacer.
At PawPlacer, we're rethinking pet management software through user-driven development. Join our team of passionate engineers and animal advocates working to connect pets with their forever homes.
Open positions
There are no positions available at this time. Check back in mid-2026 when we plan to expand our team. Roles will include senior full-stack developers and incredibly passionate shelter/foster/rescue volunteers for customer support.
We do not post on LinkedIn/Indeed/etc., so just check back here once in a while.
Purpose, autonomy, and high standards.
PawPlacer is a small remote team with direct ownership, minimal ceremony, and a strong bias toward building what rescue organizations actually need.
Why PawPlacer
Benefits and culture for people who ship.
The job is remote and flexible, but the bar is not casual. We hire for judgment, ownership, and care for the people using the product.
Work From Anywhere
Join our team across the US, Canada, Taiwan, Ukraine, and France, or establish us somewhere new! Work where and when you're most productive.
Premium Health Benefits
We prioritize your wellbeing with comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and up to 3 family members.
Pet Insurance Coverage
Your furry family matters - we provide premium pet insurance for up to three pets per employee or unlimited if fostering.
Annual Team Retreats
We're fully remote, but once a year we trade Slack for real life. Think brewery tours, rafting trips, paintball matches, ATV rides, skydiving (really, 2 of us did it this year while the others got sushi), and plenty more. Totally optional, zero pressure. Just a chance to hang out, laugh, and have a great time together in Golden, Colorado. Partners are welcome to come, all expenses paid. This is when our petsitting stipend helps.
Transparent and Generous Compensation
We believe in transparency, equality, and living a great life. We hire those who accomplish a lot in a little time, and pay them accordingly. Developer roles start at a $180,000 base salary, with annual bonuses based on individual performance, not hours or company performance.
Pick your tickets
You choose what you work on and what you think you're fastest at. You have full autonomy to choose your own tasks. Out-of-domain and backburner tasks go to leadership so devs aren't stuck in the trenches.
Optional Cryptocurrency Compensation
If you prefer to be paid in cryptocurrency, you may choose a custom percentage (1-100%) of your salary to be paid in ETH, BTC, SOL, or USDC directly to your wallet.
The Best Tools
Our jQuery and Bootstrap-based PHP app is fully optimized for IE7. Our flash-based widgets will gain TypeScript support in the coming years. If that sentence made you nauseous, you might fit in here. In reality, we use React, TypeScript, Supabase, Tailwind, Postgres, and some AWS.
Flat Organization
Join a flat, trust-driven team with full autonomy. No micromanagement, no red tape. Developers talk directly with users to get what they need, keeping decisions clear and fast.
Latest Tech Setup
Get your choice of the latest MacBook Pro or iMac, plus a $3,000 home office stipend to create your perfect workspace.
Async-First Culture
We respect your time with minimal meetings, only when necessary. Most work happens asynchronously or in impromptu Slack huddles.
Impact & Ownership
Your voice matters. Contribute directly to company direction and product decisions, regardless of your role. Own your work.
Dynamic Environment
We have a roadmap, but our decisions are entirely from our users and prioritized by the team. We are not afraid to pivot or change course if it's the right thing to do, and it usually is.
Team-Oriented
We take complex features and build them for non-technical users. This is hard. We strongly promote pair-programming, Slack huddles, and any other rubber ducking methods to help each other out. PawPlacer is a blame-free environment.
Pro-AI
During interviews and on the job, you're encouraged to use AI to help you. We care about the quality and security of your final work, not the tools you use to get there. Code reviews can be intense, but they are done with love out of respect for our users and our Infosec's peace of mind.
Who thrives here
The strongest fit is someone who cares about correctness without needing a lot of process around them. You should be comfortable working across React Router, Supabase, Tailwind, Postgres, and the server-side pieces that keep the product reliable.
Security, accessibility, and performance are part of the work, not separate polish passes at the end. We expect people to think through edge cases, ask good questions, and notice when a workflow is harder than it needs to be.
Shelter, rescue, or foster experience is useful, but it is not required. What matters more is respect for the people doing that work and the ability to turn their feedback into clear, maintainable product changes.
If you have a background in security research, infrastructure, data-heavy products, or operational tools, mention it. We value people who can reason about how systems fail, not just how they are supposed to work.