The Farmer's Dog is looking to solve the problem of providing personalized and healthy dog food to customers, and is seeking an engineer to support the strategic evolution of core systems and establish clear boundaries, leading migrations, and enabling resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep and varied expertise designing and evolving systems at scale
- Led architectural initiatives that reshaped systems and made them more reliable, maintainable, and extensible
- Partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance short and long term strategy
- 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
- Thrive at working across teams, aligning people and systems, and driving impact beyond your immediate scope
- Mentor and elevate other senior engineers
- Committed to furthering the mission of The Farmer's Dog
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
- In-office culture, with a dog-friendly office in Greenwich Village
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
- Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
- Company supported mental health benefits
- 12 week paid parental leave
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
