Principal, Engineering Services

Engineering Manager

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. 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.

Our engineering org is growing, creating fresh opportunities to solve complex, high-impact problems at scale. 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 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.

One Team: We don't think of ourselves as "Acquisition Marketers", "Engineers", "Data Analysts", or "Product Managers". 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 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 ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention. Similarly, we don't subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.

Grow and support a pawd of 4+ engineers through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, coaching, and continuous feedback

Partner with staff and senior engineers to guide your pawd's technical direction, ensuring scalable systems, clean architecture, and strong engineering craft

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

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 1:1's, managing performance and providing frequent, clear, relevant feedback

You have a customer-centric mentality and experience collaborating with product, design, data, and other key stakeholders

You love dogs

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. We ask all team members to be in office 4 - 5 days a week to build a collaborative and invested environment to foster our unique in-person culture we are proud to have. This office policy is subject to change at company discretion.

When people feel a true sense of belonging, they do their best work, take smart risks, and bring forward diverse perspectives — leading to stronger decisions and deeper relationships. We anchor this belief in a simple phrase: "Everyone's welcome at the dog park." There's no one way to show up at the dog park— just shared space, mutual respect, and the freedom to be yourself. Being included is just the beginning, it's about contributing your voice, growing through challenges, and building trust through shared goals. We continuously evaluate to ensure we are creating a consistent experience that cultivates belonging for all employees, from hiring and performance reviews to talent development. lunch with a new teammate, a shared laugh, or a quick story about your weekend. Our structure includes biannual employee surveys, manager training, TFD camps, and support from Humans to ensure we're listening and learning from our Team.

Dog-friendly office in SoHo

• Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision