WHO WE ARE

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the ninety billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

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WHAT WE STAND FOR AND WHERE YOU’LL COME IN

What’s a day in the life of a Software Engineer like here? 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 have a great team, but there’s still so much to do and figure out. 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. 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.
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. If you’re looking for a fully-formed organization with a lot of established processes: a larger company would be a better fit. If you’re looking for rapid iteration to find product-market fit: an earlier stage startup would be a better match.
One Team: 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.
We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: 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 consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: 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 Execute For Impact: 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 Focused and Work Without Assumption: 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.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

We’re seeking software engineers passionate about leveraging AI to empower our employees, enabling them to focus on the areas where their skills can make the greatest impact. In general you have:

• Knowledge of programming languages and software development standard processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Experience developing functionality utilizing LLMs and AI-focused design patterns.
• Experience creating monitoring plans to make sure SLAs are being met.
• Analytical and problem solving skills to identify and resolve issues that arise during projects to minimize delays and keep projects on track
• Investigative skills for diagnosing root causes in complex systems and issues
• Experience with multi-functional teams including developers, product managers, and partners to meet project and organizational goals
• Strong leadership skills, with experience leading multi-team initiatives.
• Commitment to designing and implementing user focused solutions that meet user needs and provide an exceptional experience.
• Solid data modeling skills for assessing and expanding our domain.
• Strong architectural/architectural design experience working at scale.
• Experience leading the design, implementation and launch of new company impacting systems.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and giving proactive feedback.
• Evolves engineering processes as the primary force and sees them through to completion.
• Proficiency in our stack which is top-to-bottom JavaScript (and TypeScript); a background with React, Angular, Node.js and Vue.js is preferred.

WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE

• 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.
• You can research, create proofs of concept and understand if introducing a new technology to your team is the right decision.
• Detail oriented internally and externally. You love to build accurate mental models of how things work.
• You own systems. You are aware of their SLAs and make sure they grow in a way that is maintainable and expandable.
• You are excited about AI but understand what it can and can’t do.
• 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.
• Proactively support and uplift team members by sharing expertise and helping them navigate challenges.
• You welcome feedback and provide it proactively to everyone you work with.
• 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.
• You challenge convention, you question why processes exist and lead making improvements and communicating the changes.
• 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.

OFFICE GUIDELINES

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.

Please refer the Job description for details