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About the role
Fetch is building the next generation of systems that power personalized advertising experiences for millions of users, and we're looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to help define the architecture behind them. You will design, scale, and evolve the high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that sit on the critical path of Fetch's advertising platform. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems in production, with demanding throughput, latency, availability, and reliability requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency models, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure modes, and coordination
- Experience diagnosing and solving performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure
- Strong expertise with service-oriented or microservice architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and high-volume data processing
- Demonstrated experience making architectural tradeoffs across relational and non-relational databases, streaming platforms, caching technologies, and other distributed storage
- Strong operational experience with production systems: observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, load testing, and reliability engineering
More about this role
What we’re building and why we’re building it.
Fetch helps people live rewarded every day, with a vision to become the rewards destination for everyone. We turn everyday activities into meaningful rewards, whether it’s grocery shopping, grabbing a quick meal, or playing a favorite mobile game. To date, we’ve awarded more than $1 billion in Fetch Points to our users.
Each day, more than 13 million receipts are submitted on Fetch, providing visibility into over $212 billion in gross merchandise value. This creates the largest retail-agnostic, SKU-level view of household spending, powering Fetch as an outcomes-based advertising platform that helps brands acquire and retain lifelong consumers.
The Fetch app is available on the App Store and Google Play, with more than 6 million five-star reviews from a highly engaged and loyal user base.
It’s not just our users who believe in Fetch: with investments from Softbank, ICONIQ, DST, Greycroft, and partnerships ranging from challenger brands to Fortune 500 companies, Fetch is reshaping how brands and consumers connect in the marketplace. When you work at Fetch, you play a vital role in a platform that drives brand loyalty and creates...
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