Front-End Engineer (React) — Hybrid, Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Equity (Series A)

MacBook Pro

Team retreats

Office dogs

Bean to cup coffee

Job summary

Fetch in Sydney, NSW, is seeking a Front-end Engineer (React/TypeScript) to raise the UI quality and ship polished experiences for pet parents and vets. You’ll collaborate with design and product to deliver fast, accessible, and delightful interfaces.

The role emphasizes design system evolution, high-craft UI, and performance, with hybrid in-office Tue–Thu. A thoughtful tech stack includes React, TypeScript, React Native, Next.js, and GCP.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years building and shipping frontend product
• Strong React + TypeScript fundamentals
• 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
• Comfortable working with designers in Figma and giving constructive feedback
• You care about accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-browser behaviour
• You enjoy iterating in small steps and polishing the last 10%
• Bonus: experience with design systems, mobile, or performance tuning

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
• 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, a consistent component library, frontend foundations, UX improvements, UI for AI-powered features

Skills

React fundamentals

TypeScript

UI/UX craft

Performance

Tools

TypeScript

React

React Native

Next.js

GCP

Figma

Cursor

Claude

Job description

Fetch in Sydney, NSW, is seeking a Front-end Engineer (React/TypeScript) to raise the UI quality and ship polished experiences for pet parents and vets. You’ll collaborate with design and product to deliver fast, accessible, and delightful interfaces.

The role emphasizes design system evolution, high-craft UI, and performance, with hybrid in-office Tue–Thu. A thoughtful tech stack includes React, TypeScript, React Native, Next.js, and GCP.