Software Engineer (AI and Platform)

About Fetch Fetch is how modern pet parents give their pets the best care 🐶🐱. One pink app 🩷 for insurance, health, and care – easy, fair, and kinda fun. We’ve raised our Series A from Lightspeed and Airtree, customers love us (rated #1 by Choice Magazine!), and we’re growing fast. We’re looking for an ambitious engineer who’s excited to build AI-driven products that improve pet health, streamline veterinary care, and help millions of pets live healthier lives. Location: Sydney (Hybrid – Tue/Wed/Thu in-office) Compensation: Series A salary + meaningful equity upside Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, GCP Tooling: Cursor, Claude, and unlimited AI tools – no token limits Your role You'll work alongside our team to build features that make a real difference to pet health and veterinary care. You'll have the chance to learn, grow, and contribute to meaningful outcomes. 🛠️ Ship features that improve pet health and veterinary care 📈 Build systems to manage pet health data and streamline workflows 🤖 Work with AI to create reliable, production-ready features 🔍 Collaborate with vets, ops, and product teams to solve real problems What you'll build Event-driven systems: Integrating and cleaning data from veterinary systems into clearly defined, auditable domain events Real-time workflows: Vet visits triggering health record updates, follow-up reminders, and actionable insights AI-powered features: Automating triage, symptom evaluation, summarisation, and personalised care recommendations Workflow engines: Building robust systems with audit trails and human oversight Production AI: Turning AI outputs into clear, safe decisions using structured outputs and verification Core platform components: Foundations (Pets, Health Records, Care Plans) that enable rapid innovation About you You're a super smart engineer who's keen to learn and grow. You care about building things properly and creating real impact for pets and their families. 3+ years shipping software in a production environment Comfortable with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and GCP (or willing to learn quickly) Pragmatic approach – you understand tradeoffs and when to move fast vs. build for scale Care about code quality, testing, and maintainability Good communicator who works well with others Solid understanding of backend fundamentals: distributed systems and queues Some experience with event-driven architectures or workflow systems (or keen to learn) Interest in production AI (structured outputs, evaluation, guardrails) – experience a plus but not required Bonus – experience in healthcare, veterinary, fintech or related industries What it’s like here We're ambitious, collaborative, and genuinely enjoy building together. The Fetch team is smart, thoughtful, and kind – low ego, open, caring, and always supportive. 🧠 You’ll be involved early in strategy. You’re encouraged to give your opinion and debate with founders and the rest of the team 🤪 Weird is welcome. We value unexpected perspectives and people who think differently, so just be you 🤖 Unlimited AI tooling - no token limits or approvals needed. Just try things 🩷 Work on a product genuinely loved by thousands of pets and pet parents 🚀 We're growing FAST . It's an exciting time to join and you'll directly impact the future of our products And the perks: 📈 Competitive Series A salary + meaningful equity 🏠 Hybrid working (3 days Sydney office, flexible WFH) 💻 Latest MacBook Pro and a top setup ✈️ Two team retreats each year (Blue Mountains, SXSW, Hunter Valley) 🐶 Office dogs for cuddles and interruptions 🍫 Bean to cup coffee machine, unlimited fruit and snacks. Toblerone on-tap How to apply Apply via the link, along with a quick note highlighting (bonus points if you include a photo of your pet 🐾): A project you've built that you're proud of (what made it interesting, what you learned) Any experience you have with AI features (what you built, how it worked) What excites you about working at Fetch Links to your work (GitHub/portfolio) Interview Process Intro chat: Get to know each other, talk about the role and what you're looking for Technical conversation: Past projects you've worked on, challenges you've solved, and your approach Practical challenge: A realistic problem to work through together Meet the team: Chat about working style, collaboration, and day-to-day at Fetch