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)