The Farmer's Dog

Engineering Manager

New York, New York, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$185k-$215kDetected 22 days ago

TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSDockerTerraformTemporalExcelPerformance ManagementCollaborationMentoring

About the role

finding a balance of delivering impactful projects for the business, continuously improving team cohesion and processes, and supporting individuals progress through their careers.
You'll embody our values and working principles, leading by example and instilling them in your pawd.
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

Grow and support a pawd of 4+ engineers through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, coaching, and continuous feedback
Create an environment of high trust, ownership, and clarity where engineers are proud of their work and aligned on priorities
Partner with staff and senior engineers to guide your pawd's technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft
Partner with product managers to shape strategy and roadmaps, adapt priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes
Contribute to the evolution of our engineering organization by improving how we hire, build, and collaborate across pawds
You lead with curiosity and ownership to remove blockers, drive clarity, and make sure your pawd and product succeed
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.

Requirements

You have 5+ years of software engineering experience
You have 3+ 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, relevant feedback
You have proven ability architecting for high-scalability and availability
You are able to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions

Compensation

Market-competitive compensation and equity packages

Benefits

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.
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.
Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
Company supported mental health benefits
12 week paid parental leave
Promote a culture of learning through architecture reviews, incident reviews, and peer mentorship

Company info

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 $90 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 business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us 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.
#LongLiveDogs
What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In
We're starting by radically improving the $90 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 business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
Our engineering org is growing, creating fresh opportunities to solve complex, high-impact problems at scale.
This role is part of that growth: a chance to shape how we build, collaborate, and lead as we take on bigger challenges.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team (we call them pawds 🐾) of engineers focused on delivering impactful software and growing as individuals.
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 team cohesion and processes, and supporting individuals progress through their careers.

Equal opportunity

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.
Reasonable Accommodations
TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.

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