The Farmer's Dog is looking to evolve its core systems, establish clear boundaries, lead migrations, and enable resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs. They aim to influence product and business strategy by identifying risks, constraints, and opportunities within their systems. The company also seeks to foster alignment across the organization, build trust between teams, refine priorities, and ensure the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals.
Requirements
- You bring 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep and varied expertise designing and evolving systems at scale
- You have led architectural initiatives that reshaped systems and made them more reliable, maintainable, and extensible
- You’ve partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance short and long term strategy
Responsibilities
- Guide the strategic evolution of core systems, establishing clear boundaries, leading migrations, and enabling resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs
- Influence product and business strategy through deep understanding of our system and products by identifying risks, constraints and opportunities
- Foster alignment across the organization by building trust between “pawds”, refining priorities and ensuring the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals
- Partner closely with Staff engineers and other engineering leaders to steer and shape the organization
- Assess and introduce new technologies thoughtfully through research, prototypes, written briefs and, most importantly, ensuring alignment with our strategy
- Work with departments across the organization to ensure a cohesive experience across all of our digital and physical products for new customers
- Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence by modeling high standards, mentoring senior engineers, and spreading best practices across the org
Other
- You are able to succeed in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
- You thrive at working across teams, aligning people and systems, and driving impact beyond your immediate scope
- You mentor and elevate other senior engineers
- You are committed to furthering the mission of The Farmer’s Dog
- We are an in-office culture, made of in-office people who thrive on the collaboration and magnetism of working in a shared space. We are seeking individuals who excel in this type of environment, where being present fosters deeper connections and engagement.
