Senior Software Engineer 1

The Farmer's Dog • New York, NY

8d • $190,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Business Logic pod, you'll work on the systems at the core of how The Farmer's Dog operates: subscriptions, pricing, billing, and order generation. Everything depends on these systems, and we're reshaping them for the next phase of growth. You'll own architectural decisions that other engineers will build on for years, partnering closely with other engineering pods, Product, Design, Data Analytics, and Lifecycle Comms. We care deeply about building reliable, scalable systems and about working well together, regularly whiteboarding, pair programming, and reviewing architecture with peers who set a high bar. 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.

Requirements

• Strong full stack engineer with 6 - 8+ years of experience who is comfortable working across the frontend and backend, and you enjoy building features end-to-end (experience in our stack is a plus).
• Significant experience building and operating production systems where bugs cost money or break customer trust.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and you see the value in writing down key decisions, tradeoffs, and practices for the people who'll use them.
• Welcome diverse opinions and actively seek input to challenge your assumptions.
• An owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively, with a strong attention to detail.
• Pragmatic judgment about when to reach for AI and other new tools and when not to.
• 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.
• Love dogs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of complex systems and features, from design through long-term operation. You own what you ship in production, not just the merge.
• Decompose ambiguous problems into concrete work. Take a customer problem or vague initiative, break it into shippable scope, make judgment calls you can defend and document, then ship the code that delivers against them.
• Understand data relationships and how they propagate through the system. Engineers here own the data model end-to-end, from API to database, designing the schemas, migrations, and contracts that hold up as we iterate. Be thoughtful with decisions that help us iterate and hold up as we scale.
• Own production operation and monitoring of the systems you build, with awareness of their SLAs. Diagnose root causes and anticipate risk before it becomes an incident. Surface issues with recommendations, not open questions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Analytics, Lifecycle Comms, and others as the work demands. Bring them in from the start and solve problems together, not in isolation. Write and speak clearly enough that they can engage with your decisions, not just receive them.
• Develop the pod and improve the system. Mentor other Engineers through code review, design feedback, and incident retros. Refine the processes, tools, and on-call practices that raise the bar for everyone.
• Work in our stack: TypeScript end-to-end, GraphQL, Temporal for durable workflows, Postgres, AWS. Embrace and evaluate new tools as the work requires.
• Leverage AI tools to make your work better than it would be without them. Own what you ship: you must be able to explain, debug, and maintain it, regardless of how it was produced.

Benefits

• Dog-friendly office in SoHo
• 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: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed