Senior Software Engineer 1
AI summary of the role
Senior full-stack engineer owning end-to-end lifecycle of complex systems at a fast-growing direct-to-consumer pet food company.
What you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle of complex systems and features, from design through long-term operation.
- Decompose ambiguous problems into concrete, shippable work and own the data model from API to database.
- Own production operation, monitoring, and SLAs; diagnose root causes and anticipate risks.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Analytics, and Lifecycle Comms.
What you’ll bring
- 6-8+ years of full stack engineering experience.
- Significant experience building and operating production systems where bugs cost money or break customer trust.
- Strong written and verbal communication; values documenting decisions and tradeoffs.
- Comfortable working across frontend and backend, building features end-to-end.
Technologies
TypeScript · GraphQL · Temporal · Postgres · AWS · CI/CD · A/B testing · feature flags
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets. #LongLiveDogs What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In At The Farmer's Dog, we believe the best customer experience comes from owning the technology that powers it. That's why we design, build, and operate our systems in-house, from subscription and e-commerce to fulfillment and delivery, so that every dog and human gets the right experience, every time. Our engineers work on problems that matter and that are hard: evolving systems to support rapid growth, building platforms flexible enough to serve customers with many different needs, and creating product experiences that didn't exist before. Short feedback loops are how we get better, in code and in how we work together. We trust people to do good work and want to
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Who We Are The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future. To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets. #LongLiveDogs What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In At The Farmer's Dog, we believe the best customer experience comes from owning the technology that powers it. That's why we design, build, and operate our systems in-house, from subscription and e-commerce to fulfillment and delivery, so that every dog and human gets the right expe [... source excerpt omitted ...] code and in how we work together. We trust people to do good work and want to keep improving, so feedback flows freely. The same instinct shapes how we ship: peer-reviewed code to production in minutes via CI/CD, and A/B experiments, feature flags, shadow deployments and progressive rollouts to release with confidence. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work on the systems at the core of how The Farmer's Dog operates and ensure our systems support our 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 bui [... source excerpt omitted ...] orking 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. 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 – gett
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