Staff Engineer

The Farmer's Dog • New York, NY

2d • $207,000 - $250,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Farmer's Dog is seeking a Staff Engineer to support a group of talented Engineers and Managers across pods who care deeply about building reliable, scalable systems and about working well together. This role offers the space and agency to have a direct hand in scaling the business, solving novel customer problems, and building strong relationships with cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate will make an outsized impact on technology, on customers, and on the lives of dogs everywhere.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep and varied expertise designing and evolving systems at scale.
• Have led architectural initiatives that reshaped systems and made them more reliable, maintainable, and extensible.
• Partnered closely with product on business strategy and have helped organizations balance and build short and long term strategy.
• Able to succeed in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions.
• Thrive at working across teams, aligning people and systems, and driving impact beyond your immediate scope.
• Have a clear-eyed view of AI; know where it accelerates great engineering and where it introduces risk, and help teams navigate the differences.
• Mentor and elevate other senior engineers.
• Are an owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively, with a strong attention to detail.
• Skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making.
• Love dogs.

Responsibilities

• Guide the strategic evolution of core and new systems, establishing clear boundaries, leading migrations, and enabling resilient architecture that scales and adapts to business needs now and for the future.
• Influence product and business strategy through deep understanding of our systems and products by identifying risks, constraints and opportunities.
• Foster alignment across the organization by building trust between pods & business partners, refining priorities and ensuring the engineering strategy supports customer and company goals.
• Partner closely with other Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designs and Data to steer and shape the organization.
• Assess and introduce new technologies thoughtfully, including AI and automation tools, through research, prototypes, written briefs and, most importantly, ensuring alignment with our strategy and standards.
• Lead the org's technical approach to AI: evaluate where it creates genuine leverage, define how we use it responsibly, and raise the bar on how engineers at TFD apply it in their day-to-day work.
• Work with departments across the organization to ensure a cohesive experience across all of our digital and physical products for our customers.
• Develop deep expertise in how data flows across our systems and domains, using that understanding to guide architectural boundaries and integration decisions.
• Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence by modeling high standards, mentoring & coaching engineers at all levels and driving best practices throughout the organization.

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