Engineering Manager

The Farmer's Dog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Market-competitive compensation

Comprehensive Healthcare

Mental health benefits

12 week paid parental leave

Competitive 401k plan

Flexible PTO

Discounted fresh food for pets

Job summary

A leading pet care company in New York is searching for an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on impactful software development. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of software engineering experience, including 3 years in a management role. Responsibilities include team leadership, strategic partnership, and driving clarity in project delivery. The company provides a dog-friendly office, competitive compensation, and comprehensive health benefits, fostering a strong team culture and a commitment to pet health.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading a high-performing team.
• Experience with delegation, managing performance, and providing feedback.
• Proven ability in architecting for high-scalability.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers focused on impactful software delivery.
• Grow and support team through hiring, onboarding, and coaching.
• Guide technical direction with staff and senior engineers.
• Ensure work aligns with company goals and customer impact.
• Contribute to the evolution of the engineering organization.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Engineering management experience

Delegation of responsibilities

Architecting for high-scalability

Customer-centric mentality

Skilled communicator

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Postgres

Job description

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.

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 pawds 🐾) 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 pawd: 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 pawd. You’ll co‑own your pawd’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 Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Temporal, and Postgres, and are looking for engineers excited to dive into these technologies and help us push them further.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Grow and support a pawd 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
• Partner with staff and senior engineers to guide your pawd’s technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft
• Promote a culture of learning through architecture reviews, incident reviews, and peer mentorship
• Partner with product managers to shape strategy and roadmaps, adapt priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes
• Ensure your pawd’s work aligns with company goals and customer impact
• Contribute to the evolution of our engineering organization by improving how we hire, build, and collaborate across pawds
• Operate with urgency and intentionality by moving quickly and focusing on the right problems while improving how we work

We’re Excited About You Because

• You have 5+ years of software engineering experience
• You have 3+ years of engineering management experience leading a high‑performing team, supporting day‑to‑day execution, setting goals, and coaching for growth and development.
• You have experience efficiently delegating group responsibilities, conducting 1:1s, managing performance and providing frequent, clear, relevant feedback
• You lead with curiosity and ownership to remove blockers, drive clarity, and make sure your pawd and product succeed
• You have proven ability architecting for high‑scalability and availability
• You have a customer‑centric mentality and experience collaborating with product, design, data, and other key stakeholders
• You are able to thrive in a fast‑paced and ambiguous environment, naturally curious and proactive self‑starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
• You’re a skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision‑making

A Few of Our Best 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

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Reasonable Accommodations

TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail].