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 a talented engineer who wants to grow their skills building 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 solid 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 tens and tens of thousands of pets, pet parents and vets

We're growing FAST . It's an exciting time to join and you'll directly impact the future of our products

We say "steward" not "owner" – the accountability is real, the language signals how we hold it

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

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)