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title: "Embedded engineering for one of the largest US veterinary groups"
description: "Mission Pet Health is one of the largest corporate veterinary groups in the US, operating across ~1,000 clinics coast to coast. They needed software engineering resources to support the build-out of their hospital experience and customer experience platforms. Devspace supplied senior, domain-aware engineers embedded directly in their teams across a multi-year engagement."
url: "https://www.devspace.no/cases/mission-pet-health"
markdown: "https://www.devspace.no/cases/mission-pet-health.md"
type: "case"
site: "devspace"
updated: "2026-06-22"
client: "Mission Pet Health"
industry: "Veterinary"
location: "US"
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# Embedded engineering for one of the largest US veterinary groups

> Mission Pet Health is one of the largest corporate veterinary groups in the US, operating across ~1,000 clinics coast to coast. They needed software engineering resources to support the build-out of their hospital experience and customer experience platforms. Devspace supplied senior, domain-aware engineers embedded directly in their teams across a multi-year engagement.

- **Client:** Mission Pet Health
- **Industry:** Veterinary
- **Location:** US

## The challenge

Mission Pet Health is one of the largest corporate veterinary groups in the US, with approximately 1,000 clinics coast to coast. As the group scaled, building modern digital experiences for both clinic staff and pet owners became a clear strategic priority and one that had to work consistently across a large and diverse network.

The scope covered two parallel tracks: a hospital experience platform for clinical operations and staff workflows, and a customer experience platform for pet owners. Both needed to move at business pace, which meant sustained senior engineering capacity that could flex with evolving requirements, not a fixed one-off delivery.

## What we did

Senior engineers embedded across two platform tracks, matched to Mission Pet Health's pace and needs throughout a multi-year engagement.

### Senior engineers embedded in their teams

Devspace supplied senior engineers embedded directly inside Mission Pet Health's product and engineering teams, working against their roadmap, their tools, and their processes. Not a vendor relationship running in parallel, but engineers operating as colleagues with full context on the platform and the business priorities driving it.

### Hospital and customer experience platforms

The engagement covered two platform tracks simultaneously: the hospital experience platform serving clinical staff and operational workflows across the clinic network, and the customer experience platform serving pet owners. Both required engineers who could move across evolving requirements without losing momentum between workstreams.

### Flexible capacity across a multi-year engagement

Mission Pet Health's engineering needs shifted as the platforms matured. Rather than a fixed scope that would have required renegotiation at every inflection point, the engagement was structured to flex and scaling capacity up or down to match the pace the business needed at each stage. The model held across multiple years without friction.

### Veterinary domain depth

The engineers Devspace placed brought prior experience in veterinary software environments, understanding the workflow patterns, integration requirements, and operational constraints specific to clinic networks at scale. That domain awareness shortened onboarding and raised the quality of technical decisions from the first sprint.

## The outcome

Mission Pet Health's hospital experience and customer experience platforms advanced with senior engineering capacity matched to the pace and shape of their needs at each stage, without the overhead and delay of conventional hiring at scale.

Across a multi-year engagement, the collaboration remained professional, productive, and genuinely embedded. Engineers were not a vendor layer - they were part of the team, carrying context across sprints and contributing to platform decisions with the domain awareness the work required.

Both sides regard the engagement as successful. Devspace continues to supply engineering resources to Mission Pet Health as the platform evolves.

## Our Case Studies

- [AWS optimisation and PHP framework upgrade for a growing veterinary SaaS platform](https://www.devspace.no/cases/hippo-manager) (Hippo Manager, Veterinary): Hippo Manager needed specialist expertise for two parallel technical challenges - a PHP framework upgrade and AWS infrastructure optimisation. Devspace placed the right engineers at the right moment, delivering results that exceeded expectations and launched an ongoing partnership.

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