Senior Software Engineer 1
The Farmer's Dog2 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of complex systems and features from design through long-term production operation.
- Decompose ambiguous customer and business problems into concrete, shippable work and implement the resulting solutions.
- Design and maintain data models, APIs, database schemas, migrations, and system contracts that support iteration and scale.
- Own production monitoring, SLAs, incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, and proactive risk reduction for built systems.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Analytics, Lifecycle Comms, and other functions to solve customer problems collaboratively.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and incident retrospectives.
- Improve engineering processes, tools, and on-call practices.
- Build with TypeScript, GraphQL, Temporal, Postgres, and AWS, while evaluating new tools as appropriate.
- Use AI tools pragmatically while remaining able to explain, debug, and maintain shipped work.
Requirements
- 6–8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong full-stack engineering experience across frontend and backend systems.
- Significant experience building and operating production systems where defects can affect revenue or customer trust.
- Experience owning features end to end and making defensible architectural decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including documenting decisions, tradeoffs, and practices.
- Effective problem-solving, prioritization, attention to detail, curiosity, and proactive ownership.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.
- Pragmatic judgment about when to use AI and other new tools.
- Experience with the stated technology stack is a plus.
- Love of dogs.
Benefits
- Dog-friendly office in SoHo.
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages.
- Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
- Company-supported mental health benefits.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Discounted fresh food for employees’ dogs.
- In-office work 4–5 days per week; the policy may change at the company’s discretion.
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About The Farmer's Dog
The Farmer’s Dog makes and delivers freshly cooked, personalized dog food for U.S. pet owners through a direct-to-consumer subscription. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it produces meals in-house and ships nationwide, with over 1 billion meals delivered. The privately held company also builds its own e-commerce, subscription, and fulfillment systems to manage pricing, billing, and orders.