Front-end Engineer (React)

Job description

About 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 - Bonus - build something cool for Fetch