The Farmer's Dog is looking to solve complex, high-impact problems at scale by growing its engineering organization and improving its software delivery processes to provide seamless and delightful cross-platform experiences for customers.
Requirements
- You have proven ability architecting for high-scalability and availability
- We work with a modern tech stack, including Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Temporal, and Postgres, and are looking for engineers excited to dive into these technologies and help us push them further.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Staff and Senior engineers to guide technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft
- Promote a culture of learning through architecture reviews, incident reviews, and peer mentorship (including coaching other engineering managers and senior+ engineers)
- Ensure your pawds' work aligns with company goals and customer impact
- Drive the evolution of our engineering organization by improving how we hire, build, and collaborate across pawds
- Operate with urgency and intentionality by moving quickly and focusing on the right problems while improving how we work
- Grow and support multiple engineering pawds through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, mentoring, coaching, and continuous feedback to set them and the function up for long term success
- Create an environment of high trust, ownership, and clarity where engineers are proud of their work and aligned on priorities
Other
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead a group of engineers (we call them pawds ) focused on delivering impactful software that delivers seamless and delightful cross-platform experiences that build confidence and trust with our customers.
- Your role is to ensure both the short and long term success of the pawd: finding a balance of delivering impactful projects for the business, continuously improving Engineering processes, and supporting individuals grow through their careers.
- You'll embody our values and working principles, leading by example, instilling them in your pawd all while staying close to your customer.
- You have 5+ 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, actionable feedback
- You lead with curiosity and ownership to align the team, remove friction, and ensure your pawd's work directly improves the customer experience
- You have a customer-centric mentality and experience collaborating with product, design, data, and other key stakeholders
