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 also aim to influence product and business strategy by identifying risks, constraints, and opportunities within their systems and products.
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 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
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
- Assess and introduce new technologies thoughtfully through research, prototypes, written briefs and, most importantly, ensuring alignment with our strategy
- Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence by modeling high standards, mentoring senior engineers, and spreading best practices across the org
- Partner closely with Staff engineers and other engineering leaders to steer and shape the organization
- Work with departments across the organization to ensure a cohesive experience across all of our digital and physical products for new customers
- Foster alignment across the organization by building trust between “pawds”, refining priorities and ensuring the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals
Other
- You’ll support a group of talented engineers and managers across “pawds” who care deeply about building reliable, scalable systems and about working well together.
- Here, you’ll have the space and agency to have a direct hand in scaling the business, solving novel customer problems, and building strong relationships along the way.
- If you want to make an outsized impact on technology, on customers, and on the lives of dogs everywhere this is the right place for you.
- You’ve partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance short and long term strategy
- 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.
