Engineering Manager

The Farmer's Dog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Farmer’s Dog is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a pod of engineers focused on delivering impactful software at scale. You’ll co-own the pod’s roadmap with Product Managers and Designers, while mentoring team members and shaping the technical direction.

You’ll work with a modern stack including TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS, Docker, and Temporal, driving high quality and scalable solutions while aligning with company goals and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering software at scale.
• Ability to collaborate with product managers and designers to drive roadmap.
• Strong craft in software engineering and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Lead a pod of engineers (4+) to deliver impactful projects.
• Own the pod roadmap in partnership with Product Managers and Designers.
• Foster high-trust, ownership, and clarity across the team and stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Hiring & onboarding

Mentoring

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

Postgres

AWS

Docker

Temporal

Job description

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

Our engineering org is growing, creating fresh opportunities to solve complex, high-impact problems at scale. This role is part of that growth: a chance to shape how we build, collaborate, and lead as we take on bigger challenges.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team (we call them pods) of engineers focused on delivering impactful software and growing as individuals. Your role is to ensure both the short and long term success of the pod: finding a balance of delivering impactful projects for the business, continuously improving team cohesion and processes, and supporting individuals progress through their careers. You’ll embody our values and working principles, leading by example and instilling them in your pod. You’ll co‑own your pod’s roadmap in deep partnership with Product Managers and Product Designers while collaborating cross‑functionally to ensure we’re solving the right problems at the right depth.

We work with a modern tech stack, including TypeScript (end‑to‑end), React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS, Docker, and Temporal, and are looking for engineers excited to dive into these technologies and help us push them further.

One Team

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.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long‑term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.

We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper‑focused on improving customer retention and experience.

We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. We don’t expect to be perfect the first time.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Grow and support a pod of 4+ engineers through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, coaching, and continuous feedback.
• Create an environment of high trust, ownership, and clarity where engineers are proud of their work and aligned on priorities.
• Lead your pod’s technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft in collaboration with Staff Engineers and other Engineering leadership