Front-end Engineer (React) @ Fetch

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. Location: Sydney (Hybrid – Tue/Wed/Thu in-office) Compensation: Series A salary + meaningful equity upside Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, GCP Frontend: React, modern component patterns, design systems, performance 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) Strong React + TypeScript fundamentals 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 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 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 🖌️ Building UI 📐 Evolving design system 🚀 Optimizing performance Key Strengths ⚛️ React 🔤 TypeScript 🎨 Design systems ⚡ Performance tuning 📱 Mobile development 🤖 AI tools 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.