Engineering Manager, The Farmer's Dog
$185-215k
+ Equity package
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
$185-215k
+ Equity package
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
- We work with a modern tech stack, including TypeScript (end-to-end), React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS, Docker, and Temporal, and are looking for engineers excited to dive into these technologies and help us push them further
- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience (full stack and top of funnel experience is a plus!)
- You have 3+ years of engineering management experience leading a high-performing team, supporting day-to-day execution, setting goals, and coaching for growth and development
- You have experience efficiently delegating group responsibilities, conducting 1:1’s, managing performance and providing frequent, clear, relevant feedback
- You lead with curiosity and ownership to remove blockers, drive clarity, and make sure your pod and product succeed
- You have proven ability architecting for high-scalability and availability
- You have a customer-centric mentality and experience collaborating with product, design, data, and other key stakeholders
- You are able to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
- 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
- Our engineering org is growing, creating fresh opportunities to solve complex, high-impact problems at scale. This role is part of that growth: a chance to shape how we build, collaborate, and lead as we take on bigger challenges
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team (we call them pods 🐾) of engineers focused on delivering impactful software and growing as individuals
- Your role is to ensure both the short and long term success of the pod: finding a balance of delivering impactful projects for the business, continuously improving team cohesion and processes, and supporting individuals progress through their careers
- You’ll embody our values and working principles, leading by example and instilling them in your pod
- You’ll co-own your pod’s roadmap in deep partnership with Product Managers and Product Designers while collaborating cross-functionally to ensure we’re solving the right problems at the right depth
- Grow and support a pod of 4+ engineers through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, coaching, and continuous feedback
- Create an environment of high trust, ownership, and clarity where engineers are proud of their work and aligned on priorities
- Lead your pod’s technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft in collaboration with Staff Engineers and other Engineering leadership
- Partner closely with Product Managers to shape strategy and roadmaps, adapt priorities, and deliver meaningful outcomes
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement through architecture reviews, incident reviews, and peer mentorship
- Continuously think about the customer, ensuring your pod’s work aligns with company goals and business impact
- Contribute to the evolution of our engineering organization by improving how we hire, build, and collaborate across pods
- Operate with urgency and intentionality by moving quickly and focusing on the right problems while improving how we work
- Look for ways to continuously improve processes, finding ways to leverage technology, enabling the effective and appropriate usage of AI to thoughtfully & strategically optimize the work
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 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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