Software Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
AgentX
$155-175k
+ Equity packages
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Vue.js
Angular 14+
Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York
Human-grade dog food delivery
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Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
B2CFoodPetsSubscriptioneCommerce
Be an early applicant
$155-175k
+ Equity packages
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Vue.js
Angular 14+
Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York
501-1000 employees
B2CFoodPetsSubscriptioneCommerce
Company mission
To change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
Role
Who you are
- There’s a focus on quality in everything you deliver from code, to architecture, to group messages
- You are always looking to improve your environment and take things from good to great
- You are the go to person for multiple technologies and are always willing to help out, by teaching and answering questions
- You are excited about AI but understand what it can and can’t do
- Detail oriented internally and externally. You love to build accurate mental models of how things work
- Always looking for ways to improve the system. With every new feature, you look for opportunities to improve the codebase
- Focused on seeking out contrasting opinions so you can learn and grow
- Resourceful enough to get the answers you need independently while savvy enough to develop solutions collaboratively
- Comfortable in both scrappy and entrepreneurial environments, as well as more sophisticated and later-stage organizations
- You think critically and objectively; have excellent problem solving skills and the ability to make quick decisions based on business demands
- You challenge convention, you question why processes exist and make suggestions on how to improve them
- You give meaningful and actionable feedback to others, helping others grow
- High energy and action-oriented with a passion for getting things done in complex environments
- Strong communication skills. You are articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others
- Results orientated with a strong work ethic. Must be tenacious, with the emotional intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches
- Committed to furthering the mission of The Farmer’s Dog
What the job involves
- At The Farmer’s Dog collaboration is an imperative
- Our team is full of engineers that love to learn and grow
- You’ll regularly white board, pair program and review architecture with top-notch peers with experience working at Amazon, Google, Disney, and Apple
- We have a great team, but there’s still so much to do and figure out
- If you’re interested in scale and want to be in the room when those architecture decisions are made: you’re reading the right job description
- We’re in that sweet spot of having clear product-market fit, but still having a small enough team that each engineer makes a big impact
- You’ll work closely with the team to restructure our application architecture to handle our rapid growth at scale
- If you want to have the space and agency to make a big impact both for customers, colleagues and our system: The Farmer’s Dog is for you
- If you’re looking for a fully-formed organization with a lot of established processes: a larger company would be a better fit
- If you’re looking for rapid iteration to find product-market fit: an earlier stage startup would be a better match
- One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”
- Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter
- We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact
- We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically
- We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own
- We proactively source input
- We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems
- We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is
- We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention
- We answer questions and address problems early and proactively
- We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically
- We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”
- We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be
- Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience
- We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas
- We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate
- To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel
- We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now
- How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”
- We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly
- We don’t expect to be perfect the first time
- We’re seeking software engineers passionate about leveraging AI to empower our employees, enabling them to focus on the areas where their skills can make the greatest impact. In general you have:
- Knowledge of programming languages and software development standard processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Experience developing functionality utilizing LLMs and AI-focused design patterns
- Analytical and problem solving skills to identify and resolve issues that arise during projects to minimize delays and keep projects on track
- Strong architectural design experience working at scale
- Takes the initiative to learn new technologies when jumping into new projects and looking for ways to improve the system
- Strong skill at leading the design and implementation of new functionality from inception to launch
- Experience designing, implementing and launching new features that have a large user impact, while reducing tech debt
- Commitment to designing and implementing user focused solutions that meet user needs and provide an exceptional experience
- Solid data modeling skills for assessing and expanding our domain
- Experience with multi-functional teams including developers, product managers, and partners to meet project and organizational goals
- Provide meaningful, actionable feedback that encourages growth and drives team excellence
- Experience mentoring other engineers
- Challenge existing engineering processes, while always looking for ways to improve them
- Proficiency in our stack which is top-to-bottom JavaScript (and TypeScript); a background with React, Angular, Node.js and Vue.js is preferred
Our take
Pet food production in the US is held to alarmingly low safety and quality standards despite being a $99 billion industry, which is hidden behind loose labeling and marketing regulations. When one of the founders of The Farmer's Dog realised that dog food was making his dog sick, they decided that dogs shouldn't be fed anything that wouldn't pass legal requirements for humans.
The Farmer’s Dog produces customised dog food packages that are sent as a regular subscription service. Recipes behind the dog food are personalised and are comprised of natural and high-quality ingredients, aiming to meet the dietary requirements of each individual dog. As the dog food is human-grade, the company even taste-tests its recipes on humans.
The startup sends millions of meals every month and boasts a continual subscription rate of almost 50%. It has raised $50 million in funding to date and is developing new pet food products and scaling to offer its subscription service outside of the US.
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Insights
Top investors
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$65m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
SERIES C
Total funding: $168.1m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly offices
- Equity packages
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401k match
- 12-week paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO and work-from-home policy
- Discounted fresh dog food
- Your pet interrupting video calls and in-person meetings is now a feature, not a bug
Company values
- Deliver Joy: We share kindness with all, leaving people happier than before our interaction.
- Be Authentic: We’re well-intentioned and understanding in our actions, assuming the same of others.
- Seek Better: We’re sceptical of the status quo and open to new approaches.
- Act Boldly: We’d rather learn from calculated, courageous risks than miss opportunities from fear.
- Play Team: We take individual and collective ownership of progress, and show gratitude to those who help.
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jonathan Yoni Regev
(Co-founder & CEO)Graduated in Business at Berkeley, UC, and then co-founded The Farmer's Dog in 2014, serving as CEO since.
Brett Podolsky
(Co-founder)Graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Lynn University before co-founding The Farmer's Dog.
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