Software Engineer, The Farmer's Dog

• 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
• Analytical and problem solving skills to identify and resolve issues that arise during projects to minimize delays and keep projects on track
• Experience with multi-functional teams including developers, product managers, and partners to meet project and organizational goals
• Solid data modeling skills for assessing and expanding our domain
• Strong architectural/architectural design experience working at scale
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• 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
• Detail oriented internally and externally. You love to build accurate mental models of how things work
• 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

• 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
• 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’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 don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”
• Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter
• 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
• 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 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 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 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

• 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

Total funding: $168.1m

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.