Software Engineer 3, AI - Tbwa Chiat/Day : Job Details

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 ninety 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 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

What's a day in the life of a Software Engineer like here? You'll work with a talented engineering “pawd” to expand and improve our subscription-based, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce platform that delivers fresh food to pets across the country. Big fan of short feedback loops? You'll deliver high quality, well-tested and peer-reviewed code to production in minutes using our automated CI/CD pipeline. Your solutions will leverage industry best practices including A/B experiments, feature toggles and canary rollouts to confidently release high-impact features that dog lovers will love.

At The Farmer's Dog collaboration is an imperative. Our team is full of engineers that love to learn and grow. You'll regularly white board, pair program and review architecture with top-notch peers with experience working at Amazon, Google, Disney, and Apple.

If you want to have the space and agency to make a big impact both for customers, colleagues and our system: The Farmer's Dog is for you. If you're looking for a fully-formed organization with a lot of established processes: a larger company would be a better fit. If you're looking for rapid iteration to find product-market fit: an earlier stage startup would be a better match.

How You'll Make An Impact

We're seeking software engineers passionate about leveraging AI to empower our employees, enabling them to focus on the areas where their skills can make the greatest impact. In general you have:

• Knowledge of programming languages and software development standard processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Experience developing functionality utilizing LLMs and AI-focused design patterns.
• Analytical and problem solving skills to identify and resolve issues that arise during projects to minimize delays and keep projects on track.
• Strong architectural design experience working at scale.
• Takes the initiative to learn new technologies when jumping into new projects and looking for ways to improve the system.
• Strong skill at leading the design and implementation of new functionality from inception to launch.
• Experience designing, implementing and launching new features that have a large user impact, while reducing tech debt.
• Commitment to designing and implementing user focused solutions that meet user needs and provide an exceptional experience.
• Solid data modeling skills for assessing and expanding our domain.
• Experience with multi-functional teams including developers, product managers, and partners to meet project and organizational goals.
• Provide meaningful, actionable feedback that encourages growth and drives team excellence.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.
• Challenge existing engineering processes, while always looking for ways to improve them.

We're Excited About You Because

• There's a focus on quality in everything you deliver from code, to architecture, to group messages.
• You are always looking to improve your environment and take things from good to great.
• You are the go to person for multiple technologies and are always willing to help out, by teaching and answering questions.
• You are excited about AI but understand what it can and can't do.
• Detail oriented internally and externally. You love to build accurate mental models of how things work.
• Always looking for ways to improve the system. With every new feature, you look for opportunities to improve the codebase.
• Focused on seeking out contrasting opinions so you can learn and grow.
• Resourceful enough to get the answers you need independently while savvy enough to develop solutions collaboratively.
• Comfortable in both scrappy and entrepreneurial environments, as well as more sophisticated and later-stage organizations.
• You think critically and objectively; have excellent problem solving skills and the ability to make quick decisions based on business demands.
• You challenge convention, you question why processes exist and make suggestions on how to improve them.
• You give meaningful and actionable feedback to others, helping others grow.
• High energy and action-oriented with a passion for getting things done in complex environments.
• Strong communication skills. You are articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others.
• Results orientated with a strong work ethic. Must be tenacious, with the emotional intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches.
• Committed to furthering the mission of The Farmer's Dog.

Office Guidelines

We are an in-office culture, made of in-office people who thrive on the collaboration and magnetism of working in a shared space. We are seeking individuals who excel in this type of environment, where being present fosters deeper connections and engagement.

Our Belonging Philosophy:

Our company's mission is rooted in deep, genuine care for dogs – and for the people who love them. As an organization we are full of individuals who are unique in many ways, but all united in a mission of providing true peace of mind to dog lovers everywhere. Fixing this industry and improving the lives of pets and their people will be a difficult, decades-long endeavor. We believe the best use of our time, energy, and resources as a collective team is to focus on this mission, and on supporting our team to do their best work and be their best selves. In support of this we're committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce, and investing in internal structures, opportunities, hiring/promotions processes, and training that create and sustain an inclusive team.

A Few of Our Best Benefits

• Dog-friendly office in Greenwich Village
• 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

We commit to building a competitive compensation package and company environment for all individuals to thrive. We believe in competitive base compensation rooted in location specific market data and performance along with equity ownership in the company that allows every team member to build their personal wealth as the company grows, just as much as we believe in fostering a culture that supports our team members personally, professionally, and holistically. For this role the anticipated hiring base compensation range is $155,000 - $175,000 USD Annual and the compensation offered will include a robust market competitive package of base and equity. In addition to your base compensation offer you will also receive equity ownership in the company. More information about the value of this equity will be shared at the time of offer. This range is representative of NYC Market Data if you are applying to this role outside of the NYC area the range may change.

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 [email protected].

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