Front-end Engineer (React)
About the role
Front-end Engineer (React) @ Fetch Pet 😎 Front-end Engineer (React) 5 Mar 2026 Apply here 👉 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, Paper, Cursor, Claude, Codex - whatever you need and 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 website, customer app, vet portal 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 super ambitious, 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 and giving constructive feedback You care about accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-browser behaviour You enjoy iterating in small steps and polishing the last 10% You know how to get the best out of using AI to ship fast 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 have a real voice in how we build. Share your ideas and debate with