Senior Software Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
Artificial Intelligence
$173-190k
+ Equity packages
Office located in Greenwich Village, NY
Human-grade dog food delivery
Be an early applicant
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$173-190k
+ Equity packages
Office located in Greenwich Village, NY
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Experience creating monitoring plans to make sure SLAs are being met
- Analytical and problem solving skills to identify and resolve issues that arise during projects to minimize delays and keep projects on track
- Investigative skills for diagnosing root causes in complex systems and issues
- Experience with multi-functional teams including developers, product managers, and partners to meet project and organizational goals
- Strong leadership skills, with experience leading multi-team initiatives
- 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
- Strong architectural/architectural design experience working at scale
- Experience leading the design, implementation and launch of new company impacting systems
- Experience mentoring other engineers and giving proactive feedback
- Evolves engineering processes as the primary force and sees them through to completion
- Proficiency in our stack which is top-to-bottom JavaScript (and TypeScript); a background with React, Angular, Node.js and Vue.js is preferred
- 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 can research, create proofs of concept and understand if introducing a new technology to your team is the right decision
- Detail oriented internally and externally. You love to build accurate mental models of how things work
- You own systems. You are aware of their SLAs and make sure they grow in a way that is maintainable and expandable
- You are excited about AI but understand what it can and can’t do
- 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
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills. You enjoy providing long-term career guidance for your team members
- 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
- You’ll work with a talented engineering “pawd” to expand and improve our subscription-based, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce platform that delivers fresh food to pets across the country
- You’ll deliver high quality, well-tested and peer-reviewed code to production in minutes using our automated CI/CD pipeline
- Your solutions will leverage industry best practices including A/B experiments, feature toggles and canary rollouts to confidently release high-impact features that dog lovers will love
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Proactively support and uplift team members by sharing expertise and helping them navigate challenges
- You welcome feedback and provide it proactively to everyone you work with
- You challenge convention, you question why processes exist and lead making improvements and communicating the changes
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
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 HQ
South Village, New York, NY
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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