Front-end Engineer (React) @ Fetch

Hatch; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Latest MacBook Pro

Two team retreats

Office dogs

Bean to cup coffee machine

Unlimited AI tools

Toblerone on-tap

Job summary

Hatch is seeking a Front-end Engineer to craft high-quality UI experiences for pet parents. You'll build in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and React Native, working closely with design and product.

You'll evolve the design system, optimize performance, and ship polished interactions. Daily use of AI tools and collaboration with vets, design, and ops. Hybrid role in Sydney with equity upside and strong perks.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years building and shipping frontend product (or equivalent through projects).
• Great taste: layout, spacing, motion, and the details that make UI feel “done”.

Responsibilities

• Build delightful UI in React with strong interaction design and visual polish.
• Help evolve our design system (components, tokens, accessibility patterns).
• Make the app feel fast: performance, rendering, loading states, perceived speed.
• Use AI tools daily to move faster without compromising quality.
• Collaborate with product, design, ops, and vets to ship outcomes, not tickets.
• Write reliable, maintainable code: testing, review, and thoughtful architecture.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

React Native

UI/UX polish

Performance tuning

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude

GCP

Job description

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 Front-end Engineer who's obsessed with craft – someone who cares about how things look, feel, and behave, and wants to build beautiful product experiences that pet parents (and vets) love.

• Compensation: Series A salary + meaningful equity upside
• Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, GCP
• Tooling: Figma + Cursor + Claude, and unlimited AI tools – no token limits

Your role

You'll set (and raise) the quality bar for the UI. You'll work closely with design and product to ship experiences that feel polished, fast, and intuitive.

• Build delightful UI in React with strong interaction design and visual polish
• Help evolve our design system (components, tokens, accessibility patterns)
• Make the app feel fast: performance, rendering, loading states, perceived speed
• Use AI tools daily to move faster without compromising quality
• Collaborate tightly with product, design, ops, and vets to ship outcomes, not tickets
• Write reliable, maintainable code: testing, review, and thoughtful architecture

What you'll build

• High-craft product surfaces in the customer app and internal tools (workflows, claims, vet comms)
• A consistent component library and design system that scales
• Frontend foundations: routing patterns, state management, observability, feature flags
• UX improvements that reduce confusion and increase trust (copy, empty states, progress states)
• UI for AI-powered features (structured outputs, explainability, clear "what happened" states)

About You

You're early-to-mid career, but you punch above your weight. You care about quality, you ship, and you notice the little things.

• 3-5 years building and shipping frontend product (or equivalent through projects)
• Great taste: layout, spacing, motion, and the details that make UI feel "done", uncompromising on exceptional design
• Product thinking: you care about the user goal, not just the implementation
• Comfortable working with designers in Figma and giving constructive feedback
• You enjoy iterating in small steps and polishing the last 10%
• Bonus: experience with design systems, mobile, or performance tuning

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