Turn your everyday receipts into gift cards with Fetch. Earn points on groceries, shopping, and games — then redeem for free gift cards. Get started free. Backed by Gaingels.
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 Staff Backend Engineer to help design and evolve the backend systems behind them. You will build and scale the high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that sit on the critical path of Fetch's advertising platform, powering real-time decisions and experiences under demanding requirements for latency, availability, correctness, efficiency, and operational resilience. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Proven track record designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at significant production scale, with demanding throughput, latency, availability, and reliability requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure isolation, and coordination
- Strong track record diagnosing performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure
- Strong expertise in API design, service boundaries, event-driven architectures, and data-intensive systems (streaming, messaging, distributed stores, caching)
- Demonstrated ownership of architecture for complex distributed systems, including scalability planning, performance optimization, failure modes, and long-term evolution
- Experience building highly reliable production systems with comprehensive observability: metrics, tracing, structured logging, alerting, capacity planning, and incident response
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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