Fetch Pet Health

Senior Software Engineer (AI and Platform)

4mo ago
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Fetch Pet Health

Senior Software Engineer (AI and Platform)

4mo ago
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Senior Software Engineer role building AI-driven products to improve pet health and streamline veterinary care, working with TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, and GCP in Sydney.

Responsibilities

  • You'll work directly with product, design, and leadership to architect and ship high-impact features that drive measurable improvements in pet health outcomes and veterinary efficiency. You'll own technical decisions, mentor engineers, and set the bar for quality.
  • Ship real products that improve pet health and veterinary care
  • Build event-driven systems to manage pet health data, streamline vet workflows, and simplify pet parent interactions
  • Turn cutting-edge AI into reliable, production-ready features (guardrails, evals, monitoring)
  • Collaborate directly with vets, ops, and product teams to create meaningful, measurable improvements in pet health outcomes

Requirements

  • You ship fast, smart, and reliably. You simplify complexity relentlessly, are comfortable making decisions quickly, and care deeply about creating impactful outcomes for pets.
  • 5+ years shipping impactful software at scale
  • Comfortable with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and GCP (or similar and quick to adapt)
  • Pragmatic builder – knowing when to scale and when to iterate quickly
  • You have great product thinking, and love to understand the user problem, challenge requirements, and push for outcomes over output
  • Obsessed with reliability, observability, and trustworthiness
  • Clear communicator, effective collaborator across teams
  • Strong backend foundations: highly scalable distributed systems with solid resilience processes and auditability of all automated decisions
  • Experience with event-driven architectures or workflow engines
  • Real-world production AI experience (structured outputs, evaluation loops, guardrails)
  • Bonus – experience in healthcare, veterinary, fintech or related industries

Conditions

  • 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 🐾):
  • The most impressive system you’ve built (why it mattered, what was tough, lessons learned)
  • An AI feature you’ve shipped (how you evaluated success, guardrails, results)
  • What excites you about working at Fetch
  • Links to your shipped work (GitHub/portfolio)

Other

  • 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 sharp, ambitious engineer who's excited to build 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
  • Real-time, event-driven architecture: Vet visits triggering health record updates, follow-up reminders, and actionable insights in minutes (not days)
  • AI-powered clinical workflows: Automating triage, symptom evaluation, summarisation, follow-ups, and personalised care recommendations
  • Reliable workflow engines: Robust, human-friendly systems with comprehensive audit trails, replayable decisions, and clear paths for humans-in-the-loop
  • Productionising AI: Turning fuzzy outputs into clear, safe decisions using structured outputs, verification, and targeted explainability
  • Data-driven AI evaluation loops: Labelled datasets, offline/online evaluations, regression tests, and ongoing monitoring so quality stays stable
  • Core domain models & platform primitives: Foundations (Pets, Health Records, Care Plans) that enable rapid, safe innovation
  • 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