Software Engineer (AI and Platform) at Fetch Pet (Sydney, Australia)
Fetch Pet· Sydney, Australia·
Role details
Series A Salary · Equity · Hybrid Working · Latest MacBook Pro · Two Team Retreats · Office Dogs · Bean To Cup Coffee · Unlimited Fruit And Snacks
Summary
Build AI-driven products and features to improve pet health and veterinary care. Responsibilities include developing event-driven systems, real-time workflows, and production-ready AI features using TypeScript, React, and GCP.
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 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)
Why work at Fetch Pet
- 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.