Front-end Engineer (React) @ Fetch

Hatch; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (3 days Sydney office,

Latest MacBook Pro and a top setup

Two team retreats each year

Office dogs for cuddles and Interrupt

Job summary

Fetch is seeking a Front-end Engineer who is obsessed with craft and building beautiful product experiences for pet parents and vets. You will work with a modern stack including TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js and GCP, with design collaboration in Figma and a culture that embraces AI tooling.

You’ll set and raise the UI quality bar, ship fast, and contribute to a scalable design system. The role offers hybrid working with 3 days in the Sydney office and flexible WFH alongside equity

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".
• Product thinking: you care about the user goal, not just the implementation.

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 tightly with product, design, ops, and vets to ship outcomes, not tickets.
• Write reliable, maintainable code: testing, review, and thoughtful architecture.

Skills

TypeScript

React

React Native

Next.js

GCP

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude

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

How To Apply

Apply via the link, along with a quick note highlighting (bonus points if you include a photo of your pet 🐾):

• Work you shipped that you’re proud of (link/screenshots welcome)
• Link to portfolio/ github

🟢 Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what’s outlined 🟢

Key Responsibilities

Key Strengths

Why Fetch is partnering with Hatch on this role. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. So when you apply you have the chance to show more than just your resume.

A Final Note: This is a role with Fetch not with Hatch.