Software Engineer (AI and Platform)

About this role

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)