Software Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
Pro Health
$155-175k
+ Equity packages
Office located in Greenwich Village, NY
Human-grade dog food delivery
Job no longer available
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$155-175k
+ 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 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
- Knowledge of programming languages and software development standard processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
- 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
- Experience designing, implementing and launching new features that have a large user impact, while reducing tech debt
- 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
- 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
- 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
- We are seeking individuals who excel in this type of environment, where being present fosters deeper connections and engagement
What the job involves
- What’s a day in the life of a Software Engineer like here? 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
- Big fan of short feedback loops? 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
- You’ll work closely with the team to restructure our application architecture to handle our rapid growth at scale
- 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 don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”
- 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
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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