Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• You're a strong full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software, and you're comfortable working across backend and frontend systems
• You care deeply about quality. You build accurate mental models of how systems work, think critically about the details, and look for opportunities to improve the codebase as you build
• You've gone deep on at least one technology or domain, enough that teammates come to you for help, and you're naturally curious and eager to keep learning
• You're an owner and a proactive self-starter. You 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
• You're resourceful and action-oriented. You find the information you need, surface risks early, and look for practical ways to move complex work forward
• You're a skilled communicator who can absorb complexity and distill it into clear decisions and tradeoffs. You collaborate well across functions, seek out perspectives that challenge your assumptions, and give meaningful, actionable feedback
• You look for ways to improve the systems, tools, and practices around you, and you're comfortable questioning conventions and suggesting better ways of working
• You use good judgment about when new technologies and tools, including AI, can improve the work and when they add unnecessary complexity
• You love dogs

What the job involves

• As a Software Engineer 3 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 design and implement significant features across these systems, making technical decisions that improve them and reduce complexity over time
• You'll also develop deep expertise in parts of our technology and become someone your teammates can rely on
• You'll partner 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
• One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter
• We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically
• 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. Our stack includes TypeScript, GraphQL, Temporal, Postgres, and AWS

Benefits

• Dog-friendly offices
• Equity packages
• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k match
• 12-week paid parental leave
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policy
• Discounted fresh dog food
• Your pet interrupting video calls and in-person meetings is now a feature, not a bug