Senior Software Engineer (AI and Platform)
Fetch Pet Health Pty Ltd – Sydney NSW
Hybrid
6d ago , from Illawarra Mercury Job Board
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.
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 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
What you'll build
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
About you
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 outstanding product thinking, and love to understand the user problem, challenge requirements, and push for outcomes over output
Obsessed with reliability,



observability, and trustworthiness
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
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
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Ai And Platform) (New South Wales)
🏢 Fetch Pet Health
📍 New South Wales