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