Senior Software Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
Platform
$190-210k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Human-grade dog food delivery
Job no longer available
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$190-210k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
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 will make a strong fit if you enjoy frequently collaborating with Software Engineers to meet their needs as our customers
- You are either a senior software engineer with experience in web operations, or a senior engineer working in a web operations role with software engineering experience. In general, we are looking for at least 5+ years of total experience
- You can drive adoption of DevOps and/or SRE principles and practices
- You have a strong background in AWS, Terraform, and Docker
- You are well versed in a programming language, and can learn JavaScript, if needed
- You have worked with relational databases, and can learn postgres, if needed
What the job involves
- The Farmer's Dog is looking for someone experienced in driving adoption of modern software delivery and operations (DevOps, SRE, etc..) to join our growing platform engineering team
- The platform engineering team helps bridge the gap between IT Operations and Software Engineering for our product teams (pawds)
- As a Platform Engineer, you will help build and maintain our software infrastructure, tools, and services that product engineers and other technical users collectively leverage in a self-service fashion as a platform
- Platform Engineers often draw on shared experience with software engineers to understand their point of view, coach operational practices, and share expertise
- We view platform engineering as successful when product engineers are able to deliver their software to end-users quickly, safely, and feel a high degree of ownership throughout the process
- Contribute code to various infrastructure, tools, and services
- Review code for other members of the engineering team
- Respond to platform bugs and incidents
- Support product engineers in using ‘the platform’
- Support product engineers serving on-call for their respective services
- Participate in the platform engineering on-call rotation for platform services
- Bring a systems view and highlight interactions between software components and people
- Advocate operational and delivery practices that benefit the organization as a whole
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
Some 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
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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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