Staff Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
$207-250k
+ Equity Packages
4-5 days a week in office (SoHo, NY)
Human-grade dog food delivery
Be an early applicant
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$207-250k
+ Equity Packages
4-5 days a week in office (SoHo, 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
- You bring 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep and varied expertise designing and evolving systems at scale
- You’ve led architectural initiatives that reshaped systems and made them more reliable, maintainable, and extensible
- You’ve partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance and build short and long term strategy
- You are able to succeed in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
- You thrive at working across teams, aligning people and systems, and driving impact beyond your immediate scope
- You have a clear-eyed view of AI; you know where it accelerates great engineering and where it introduces risk, and you help teams navigate the differences
- You mentor and elevate other senior engineers
- You’re an owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively, with a strong attention to detail
- You're a skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making
- You love dogs
What the job involves
- At The Farmer’s Dog, we believe the best customer experience comes from owning the technology that powers it
- That’s why we design, build, and operate our systems in-house, from subscription and e-commerce to fulfillment and delivery, so that every dog and human gets the best experience, every time
- Our engineers work on problems that matter and that are hard: evolving systems to support rapid growth, building platforms flexible enough to serve customers (Humans and their best furry friends) with many different needs, and creating product experiences that didn’t exist before
- You’ll support a group of talented Engineers and Managers across pods who care deeply about building reliable, scalable systems and about working well together
- Here, you’ll have the space and agency to have a direct hand in scaling the business, solving novel customer problems, and building strong relationships with cross functional partners along the way
- If you want to make an outsized impact on technology, on customers, and on the lives of dogs everywhere - this is the right place for you
- Guide the strategic evolution of core and new systems, establishing clear boundaries, leading migrations, and enabling resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs now and for the future
- Influence product and business strategy through deep understanding of our systems and products by identifying risks, constraints and opportunities
- Foster alignment across the organization by building trust between pods & business partners, refining priorities and ensuring the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals
- Partner closely with other Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designs and Data to steer and shape the organization
- Assess and introduce new technologies thoughtfully, including AI and automation tools, through research, prototypes, written briefs and, most importantly, ensuring alignment with our strategy and standards
- Lead the org's technical approach to AI: evaluate where it creates genuine leverage, define how we use it responsibly, and raise the bar on how engineers at TFD apply it in their day-to-day work
- Work with departments across the organization to ensure a cohesive experience across all of our digital and physical products for our customers
- Develop deep expertise in how data flows across our systems and domains, using that understanding to guide architectural boundaries and integration decisions
- Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence by modeling high standards, mentoring & coaching engineers at all levels and driving best practices throughout the organization
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 $60 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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