Fetch Pet - Senior Software Engineer (AI and Platform)

• 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 • 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) • Real-time, event-driven architecture: • AI-powered clinical workflows: Automating triage, symptom evaluation, summarisation, follow-ups, and personalised care recommendations • AI-powered clinical workflows: • Reliable workflow engines: Robust, human-friendly systems with comprehensive audit trails, replayable decisions, and clear paths for humans-in-the-loop • Reliable workflow engines: • Productionising AI: Turning fuzzy outputs into clear, safe decisions using structured outputs, verification, and targeted explainability • Productionising AI: • Data-driven AI evaluation loops: Labelled datasets, offline/online evaluations, regression tests, and ongoing monitoring so quality stays stable • Data-driven AI evaluation loops: • Core domain models & platform primitives: Foundations (Pets, Health Records, Care Plans) that enable rapid, safe innovation • Core domain models & platform primitives: • 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 auditibility of all automated decisions • Experience with event-driven architectures or workflow engines • Bonus – real-world production AI experience (structured outputs, evaluation loops, guardrails) • Bonus – experience in healthcare, veterinary, fintech or related industries • What it’s like here • 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 thousands of pets and pet parents • 🚀 We're growing FAST. It's an exciting time to join and you'll directly impact the future of our products • 📈 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 (Blue Mountains, SXSW, Hunter Valley) • 🐶 Office dogs for cuddles and interruptions • 🍫 Bean to cup coffee machine, unlimited fruit and snacks. Toblerone on-tap