Engineering Manager

The Farmer's Dog • New York, NY

68d • $200,000 - $240,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading a high-performing team, supporting day-to-day execution, setting goals, and coaching for growth and development
• Experience efficiently delegating group responsibilities, conducting 1:1’s, managing performance and providing frequent, clear, relevant feedback
• Lead with curiosity and ownership to remove blockers, drive clarity, and make sure your pawd and product succeed
• Proven ability architecting for high-scalability and availability
• Customer-centric mentality and experience collaborating with product, design, data, and other key stakeholders
• Thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
• Skilled communicator with the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making
• Love dogs

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
• Promote a culture of learning through architecture reviews, incident reviews, and peer mentorship
• Partner with product managers to shape strategy and roadmaps, adapt priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes
• Ensure your pawd’s work aligns with company goals and customer impact
• Contribute to the evolution of our engineering organization by improving how we hire, build, and collaborate across pawds
• Operate with urgency and intentionality by moving quickly and focusing on the right problems while improving how we work

Benefits

• 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
• Flexible PTO
• Discounted fresh food for your pup
• Your pet interrupting video calls (and in-person meetings) is now a feature, not a bug

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees