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title: 'Front-end Engineer (React) at Fetch Pet'
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# Front-end Engineer (React) at Fetch Pet

- **Company:** Fetch Pet
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fetch-pet-health/e957bc51-1932-4c97-a9ac-eb1787594aec/application

**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Next.js, GCP, Figma, Paper, Cursor, Claude, Codex, AI tools, Design systems, Mobile development, Performance tuning

> Build beautiful, high-performance UI experiences for Fetch's pet care platform using React and TypeScript. Collaborate with design and product teams to ship polished product surfaces, evolve design systems, and optimize for speed and accessibility.

## Job description

## 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 Front-end Engineer who's obsessed with craft – someone who cares about how things look, feel, and behave, and wants to build beautiful product experiences that pet parents (and vets) love.

- Location: Sydney (Hybrid – Tue/Wed/Thu in-office)
- Compensation: Series A salary + meaningful equity upside
- Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, GCP
- Frontend: React, modern component patterns, design systems, performance
- Tooling: Figma + Cursor + Claude, and unlimited AI tools – no token limits

## Your role

You'll set (and raise) the quality bar for the UI. You'll work closely with design and product to ship experiences that feel polished, fast, and intuitive.

- Build delightful UI in React with strong interaction design and visual polish
- Help evolve our design system (components, tokens, accessibility patterns)
- Make the app feel fast: performance, rendering, loading states, perceived speed
- Use AI tools daily to move faster without compromising quality
- Collaborate tightly with product, design, ops, and vets to ship outcomes, not tickets
- Write reliable, maintainable code: testing, review, and thoughtful architecture

## What you'll build

- High-craft product surfaces in the customer app and internal tools (workflows, claims, vet comms)
- A consistent component library and design system that scales
- Frontend foundations: routing patterns, state management, observability, feature flags
- UX improvements that reduce confusion and increase trust (copy, empty states, progress states)
- UI for AI-powered features (structured outputs, explainability, clear "what happened" states)

## About you

You're early-to-mid career, but you punch above your weight. You care about quality, you ship, and you notice the little things.

- 3–5 years building and shipping frontend product (or equivalent through projects)
- Strong React + TypeScript fundamentals
- Great taste: layout, spacing, motion, and the details that make UI feel "done", uncompromising on exceptional design
- Product thinking: you care about the user goal, not just the implementation
- Comfortable working with designers in Figma and giving constructive feedback
- You care about accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-browser behaviour
- You enjoy iterating in small steps and polishing the last 10%
- Bonus: experience with design systems, mobile, or performance tuning

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 🐾):

- Work you shipped that you’re proud of (link/screenshots welcome)
- Link to portfolio/ github
- Bonus - build something cool for Fetch

## 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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