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title: 'Design Engineer at Fetch Pet'
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# Design Engineer at Fetch Pet

- **Company:** Fetch Pet
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fetch-pet-health/27773251-789c-4b0b-abd8-46368fe6761a

## Job description

## About Fetch

Fetch is how modern pet parents give their pets the best care. One pink app 🩷 for insurance, health and care. We’ve raised our Series A from Lightspeed and Airtree, we’re rated 4.9 on Google, #1 by CHOICE, and we’re growing fast. Now we’re turning Australia’s fastest-growing pet insurance brand into Australia’s most-loved consumer pet health brand.

- Location: Sydney, hybrid, Tue/Wed/Thu in the office
- Employment: Full time
- Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Tailwind
- Tools: Cursor, Claude and other AI design and development tools

## The role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer to help build the future of pet health. You’ll design and build big parts of the Fetch consumer app and the platforms our partners use to support pets and their parents. There’s plenty still to figure out, and you’ll have real ownership of how these experiences look, feel and work. You’ll work alongside our design, brand, product and engineering team, bringing your own ideas and taking experiences from early concepts through to release. You might be a designer who builds or an engineer with great design instincts. What matters is that you’ve designed and shipped interfaces yourself, have a strong eye for detail and can make complicated things feel simple.

## What you’ll own

- Key experiences across our consumer app and partner platforms, from early ideas to shipped product.
- UX, visual design, prototypes and frontend code, working with the team to turn real user needs into thoughtful experiences.
- Interfaces built in React and TypeScript that are responsive, accessible and reliable.
- The details that make a product feel great: typography, layout, motion, interactions and clear, helpful feedback.
- Improvements to our design system, building on the brand and creating reusable components and patterns.
- Using AI to explore different approaches, prototype quickly and build faster.
- Refining what you’ve shipped, learning from users and improving how it works.

## About you

- You’ve designed and built digital products, with work you can show us.
- You have great taste and strong UI and UX instincts. You can explain why something works beyond how it looks.
- You’re comfortable writing frontend code and taking an interface through to release.
- You can think through a whole journey, including the awkward bits, empty states and things that might go wrong.
- You work well with designers, product people and engineers, bringing your own perspective and building on theirs.
- You’re comfortable exploring a problem before there’s a perfect brief.

You’ll probably love this role if

- Your camera roll is full of screenshots of interfaces you liked.
- You’ve downloaded an app just to see how they did the onboarding.
- A really good interaction makes you stop and play with it a few more times.
- You notice when something’s two pixels off, and it’s hard to leave it alone.
- You have a side project, half-built prototype or “I wonder if I could make…” on the go.
- You’re always trying new AI tools and sending the team things you’ve made.
- You have opinions, enjoy debating ideas and can change your mind.
- You care about getting the details right, but also love getting something out into the world.
- You want to build something millions of pet parents could use. And occasionally get distracted by an office dog.

What it’s like here

- The Fetch team is ambitious, smart, hard-working, thoughtful and kind.
- You’ll be involved early, with room to debate ideas with founders and the team.
- You’ll work on a product loved by pet parents, vets and the broader pet community.
- We’re growing fast, and the things you design and build will directly shape the future of Fetch.

## Perks

- Competitive Series A salary + meaningful equity
- Hybrid working, with three days in our Sydney office
- Latest MacBook Pro and a top setup
- Two team retreats each year
- Office dogs for cuddles and interruptions
- Bean-to-cup coffee, unlimited fruit and snacks, and Toblerone on tap
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Five weeks’ annual leave

How to apply Send us your CV and something great you’ve designed and built.

## About Fetch Pet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fetch Pet is an Australian pet insurance and health platform that combines insurance, 24/7 vet support, and a health app to simplify pet care for modern pet parents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, Australia
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Phil Wilson-Brown (CEO) and Foo Xin (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Pet Insurance, Pet Health Technology, Insurtech
- **Target customers**: B2C – pet owners (dog and cat parents) in Australia
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To give every pet access to the best vet care with great cover, and to help Aussie pets thrive through a subscription that brings together insurance, prevention, insights, and rewards.

## Products & Services
- **Fetch Pet Insurance**: Comprehensive pet insurance covering up to $30k per year, including all conditions (hereditary, cancer, dental, etc.) with no sub-limits. Covers injury (2-day wait), illness (30-day wait), and specified conditions (90-day wait).
- **FetchPay™**: Claims payment system that pays vets directly, reducing out-of-pocket costs for pet parents.
- **24/7 Vet Support**: In-app chat and phone access to a veterinary team for emergencies and health questions.
- **Fetch Health App**: A one-stop pink app for insurance, health records, care plans, and rewards – designed to bring together all aspects of pet health management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – USD $3.2 million (Seed round led by Airtree Ventures in September 2023); Series A raised from Lightspeed and Airtree (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Airtree Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners; backed by vets, insurance CEOs, pet retailers, startup founders, and tech operators. Member of Pet Industry Australia. Insurance underwritten by Pacific International Insurance.
- **Growth Signals**: Rated #1 by Choice Magazine; 4.9 ⭐ rating on ProductReview; headcount grew 42.9% YoY to ~34 employees; actively hiring 11+ roles; expanding to cats and kittens; two team retreats annually.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated platform**: Builds its own insurance platform, runs its own claims, and handles everything from cover setup to customer support – unlike many competitors who white-label.
- **Vet-led team**: Founders and many team members are vets, vet nurses, or insurance pros with experience caring for over 1 million pets, giving deep domain expertise.
- **Direct-to-vet claims (FetchPay™)**: Reduces friction for pet parents by paying vets directly.
- **Australian-owned and operated**: Holds its own AFSL (No 540762), giving it full control over product design and customer experience.
- **Strong brand and customer love**: Top-rated on ProductReview and Choice Magazine, with a distinctive pink brand and playful tone.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven pet health**: Actively building AI-powered clinical workflows for triage, symptom evaluation, summarisation, and personalised care recommendations.
- **Platform expansion**: Moving from pure insurance to a broader pet health ecosystem (prevention, insights, rewards).
- **Event-driven architecture**: Investing in real-time, event-driven systems to integrate fragmented veterinary data and trigger health insights.
- **Scaling the team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, data, product, marketing, and operations to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as ambitious, collaborative, and genuinely fun – "weird is welcome" and team members are encouraged to debate with founders and contribute to strategy.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – 3 days in Sydney office (Tue/Wed/Thu) with flexible WFH.
- **Perks**: Competitive Series A salary + meaningful equity; latest MacBook Pro; unlimited AI tools (Cursor, Claude) with no token limits; office dogs; bean-to-cup coffee machine, unlimited fruit and snacks; two team retreats per year (recently Blue Mountains, SXSW, Singapore).
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers work directly with vets, ops, and product teams; ownership of high-impact features; emphasis on shipping real products that improve pet health outcomes.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage (Series A) with fast growth – direct impact on product direction and company trajectory.

## Sources
1. [fetchpet.com.au](https://www.fetchpet.com.au/) – Official site
2. [fetchpet.com.au/about](https://www.fetchpet.com.au/about) – About page
3. [fetchpet.com.au/careers](https://www.fetchpet.com.au/careers) – Careers page
4. [linkedin.com/company/fetchpetau](https://au.linkedin.com/company/fetchpetau) – LinkedIn company page
5. [fetchpet.com.au/careers/senior-software-engineer-(ai-and-platform)](https://www.fetchpet.com.au/careers/senior-software-engineer-(ai-and-platform)) – Senior Software Engineer job posting

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