Job Description
About Fetch
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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.
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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.
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Location:
Sydney (Hybrid – Tue/Wed/Thu in-office)
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Compensation:
Series A salary + meaningful equity upside
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Stack:
TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, GCP
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Tooling:
Cursor, Claude, and unlimited AI tools – no token limits
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Your role
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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.
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Ship real products that improve pet health and veterinary care
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Build event-driven systems to manage pet health data, streamline vet workflows, and simplify pet parent interactions
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Turn cutting-edge AI into reliable, production-ready features (guardrails, evals, monitoring)
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Collaborate directly with vets, ops, and product teams to create meaningful, measurable improvements in pet health outcomes
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What you'll build
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Real-time, event-driven architecture:
Vet visits triggering health record updates, follow-up reminders, and actionable insights in minutes (not days)
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AI-powered clinical workflows:
Automating triage, symptom evaluation, summarisation, follow-ups, and personalised care recommendations
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Reliable workflow engines:
Robust,



human-friendly systems with comprehensive audit trails, replayable decisions, and clear paths for humans-in-the-loop
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Productionising AI:
Turning fuzzy outputs into clear, safe decisions using structured outputs, verification, and targeted explainability
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Data-driven AI evaluation loops:
Labelled datasets, offline/online evaluations, regression tests, and ongoing monitoring so quality stays stable
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Core domain models & platform primitives:
Foundations (Pets, Health Records, Care Plans) that enable rapid, protected innovation
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About you
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You ship fast, smart, and reliably. You simplify complexity relentlessly, are comfortable making decisions quickly, and care deeply about creating impactful outcomes for pets.
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5+ years shipping impactful software at scale
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Comfortable with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and GCP (or similar and quick to adapt)
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Pragmatic builder – knowing when to scale and when to iterate quickly
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You have great product thinking, and love to understand the user problem, challenge requirements, and push for outcomes over output
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Obsessed with reliability, observability, and trustworthiness
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Clear communicator, effective collaborator across teams
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Strong backend foundations: highly scalable distributed systems with solid resilience processes and auditability of all automated decisions
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Experience with event-driven architectures or workflow engines
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Real-world production AI experience (structured outputs, evaluation loops, guardrails)
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Bonus – experience in healthcare, veterinary, fintech or related industries
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What it's like here
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We're ambitious, collaborative, and genuinely enjoy building together. The Fetch team is smart, thoughtful, and kind – low ego, open, caring, and always supportive.
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You'll be involved early in strategy. You're encouraged to give your opinion and debate with founders and the rest of the team
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Weird is welcome. We value unexpected perspectives and people who think differently, so just be you
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Unlimited AI tooling - no token limits or approvals needed. Just try things
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Work on a product genuinely loved by tens and tens of thousands of pets, pet parents and vets
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We're growing FAST . It's an exciting time to join and you'll directly impact the future of our products
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We say "steward" not "owner" – the accountability is real, the language signals how we hold it
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And the perks:
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Competitive Series A salary + meaningful equity
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Hybrid working (3 days Sydney office, flexible WFH)
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Latest MacBook Pro and a top setup
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Two team retreats each year
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Office dogs for cuddles and interruptions
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Bean to cup coffee machine, unlimited fruit and snacks. Toblerone on-tap
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How to apply
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Apply via the link, along with a quick note highlighting (bonus points if you include a photo of your pet ):
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The most impressive system you've built (why it mattered, what was tough, lessons learned)
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An AI feature you've shipped (how you evaluated success, guardrails, results)
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What excites you about working at Fetch
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Links to your shipped work (GitHub/portfolio)
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Ai And Platform) (New South Wales)
🏢 Fetch Pet
📍 New South Wales