Software Engineer 3

The Farmer's Dog • New York, NY

13h • $165,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Farmer's Dog is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join their Business Logic pod. This role will focus on the core systems that power The Farmer's Dog's operations, including subscriptions, pricing, billing, and order generation. The engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing significant features, making technical decisions to improve systems and reduce complexity, and developing deep expertise in specific areas of the technology. The role involves close collaboration with other engineering pods, Product, Design, Data Analytics, and Lifecycle Comms. The company emphasizes building reliable, scalable systems and fostering a collaborative environment through practices like whiteboarding, pair programming, and architecture reviews. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the technology, customers, and the lives of dogs.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Comfortable working across backend and frontend systems.
• Care deeply about quality.
• Build accurate mental models of how systems work, think critically about the details, and look for opportunities to improve the codebase as you build.
• Have gone deep on at least one technology or domain, enough that teammates come to you for help.
• Naturally curious and eager to keep learning.
• An owner and a proactive self-starter.
• Can make progress in ambiguous environments, prioritize effectively across competing work, and have the judgment to know when to push through a problem, change your approach, or pull someone else in.
• Resourceful and action-oriented.
• Find the information you need, surface risks early, and look for practical ways to move complex work forward.
• Skilled communicator who can absorb complexity and distill it into clear decisions and tradeoffs.
• Collaborate well across functions, seek out perspectives that challenge your assumptions, and give meaningful, actionable feedback.
• Look for ways to improve the systems, tools, and practices around you, and comfortable questioning conventions and suggesting better ways of working.
• Use good judgment about when new technologies and tools, including AI, can improve the work and when they add unnecessary complexity.
• Love dogs.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship medium-to-large features end to end.
• Take defined problems from design through production, making sound technical decisions and following your work through after it ships.
• Turn problems into shippable work.
• Break larger efforts into increments that can ship continuously, weigh in on sequencing and dependencies, and surface blockers and unexpected complexity early.
• Improve the systems you work in.
• Reduce technical debt as you build, design data models and contracts that hold up as we iterate, and make decisions that keep the next change cheap.
• Debug systematically and build with quality in mind.
• Diagnose root causes using the data available to you, and consider reliability, performance, and security in the code you write and review.
• Partner across engineering, Product, Design, Data Analytics, and other teams.
• Bring the right people into the work early, communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly, and solve problems collaboratively.
• Become a go-to person and share what you know.
• Build deep expertise in a technology or part of the domain, help teammates succeed, and provide meaningful, actionable feedback in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Keep learning and challenge how we work.
• Take initiative to learn new technologies, question processes and practices that are not serving the team, and use tools like AI thoughtfully to improve how you build software.

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
• 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed