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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.\nEach 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.\nThe 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.\nIt’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 lifelong consumers with the power of Fetch points. User and partner success are at the heart of everything we do, and we extend that same commitment to our employees.\nAt Fetch, we value curiosity, adaptability, and the confidence to explore new tools, especially AI, to drive smarter, faster work. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be ready to learn quickly and think critically. We welcome learners who move fast, challenge the status quo, and shape what’s next, with us. Ranked as one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for two years in a row, Fetch fosters a people-first culture rooted in trust, accountability, and innovation. We encourage our employees to challenge ideas, think bigger, and always bring the fun to Fetch.\nMeet Fetch Engineering\nAt Fetch, engineering is driven by curiosity, ownership, and a bias toward action. We operate in complex problem spaces where the right answer is not always clear, and success depends on adaptability, critical thinking, and informed decision-making. Our engineers are comfortable navigating ambiguity, understanding tradeoffs, gathering context, and turning uncertainty into progress while maintaining high technical standards.\nEngineers at Fetch take pride in building reliable, scalable systems that serve millions of users. You will contribute directly to the codebase, collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, and help shape best practices that elevate the quality of our work. We foster a culture of mentorship and collaboration, where engineers grow by learning from one another and holding a high bar for quality, reliability, and impact.\nAbout the Role:\nFetch 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.\nAt Fetch, Staff means impact well beyond a single team. You set technical standards that multiple teams adopt, architect across multiple services and domains for company-wide programs, and define multi-quarter initiatives that shape the direction of the broader Ads organization and the Platform, Data, and ML teams it depends on. You are the person who resolves the high-ambiguity, team-spanning problems others get stuck on, and you lead through technical influence and mentorship rather than formal authority.\nThe role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture, along with a track record of solving difficult performance and scaling problems in production. You should be comfortable reasoning about systems operating at high request volumes, identifying bottlenecks across the stack, and designing architectures that continue to perform as traffic, data volume, and product complexity grow.\nThis is a high-impact role at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time decisioning, and monetization, where performance, reliability, and operational excellence are non-negotiable. You will work closely with Ads, Product, Platform, Data, and ML teams to build scalable foundations that let Fetch move quickly while holding a high bar for system quality.\nThis is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US offices or remotely in the United States.\nWhat you’ll do at Fetch (Role Responsibilities):\nOwn architecture across critical Ads services. Design the high-throughput, low-latency services behind ad selection, targeting, pacing, delivery, attribution, and measurement, including the calls on partitioning, caching, consistency, concurrency, and performance across multiple services and domains.\nDesign for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence. Build systems that degrade gracefully under partial failures, traffic spikes, and downstream degradation, with the metrics, tracing, SLOs, and alerting that give clear visibility into revenue-generating systems.\nEvolve event-driven and data-intensive architectures. Design reliable data flows across transactional and non-transactional stores, streaming, messaging, caching, and real-time processing, balancing consistency, durability, latency, scalability, and operational complexity.\nSet standards multiple teams adopt. Drive backend, reliability, and performance standards across Ads and adjacent teams, and build reusable services and patterns that cut duplication and accelerate development.\nDrive engineering leverage. Lead significant refactoring, migration, and system-health work, and build shared infrastructure and patterns that improve the group's velocity and reliability.\nShape org-level technical direction. Define and deliver multi-quarter initiatives that shape Ads-org direction and influence org-level priorities, and carry technical direction for the group when needed.\nSolve high-ambiguity, team-spanning problems. Resolve complex reliability, performance, and scalability problems that span multiple teams, and partner across Ads, Platform, Product, Data, and ML to align investment and surface misalignments early.\nRaise the engineering bar across teams. Mentor senior engineers across boundaries, lead technical design reviews, and establish practices for distributed systems, performance, reliability, and operational readiness that other teams adopt.\nIn your Toolbox (Minimum Requirements):\nProven track record designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at significant production scale, with demanding throughput, latency, availability, and reliability requirements.\nDeep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure isolation, and coordination.\nStrong track record diagnosing performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure.\nStrong expertise in API design, service boundaries, event-driven architectures, and data-intensive systems (streaming, messaging, distributed stores, caching).\nDemonstrated ownership of architecture for complex distributed systems, including scalability planning, performance optimization, failure modes, and long-term evolution.\nExperience building highly reliable production systems with comprehensive observability: metrics, tracing, structured logging, alerting, capacity planning, and incident response.\nExperience making architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, latency, consistency, operational cost, complexity, and developer-productivity tradeoffs.\nAbility to independently translate ambiguous product and business requirements into robust backend designs with clear technical and operational tradeoffs.\nOrg-level influence beyond direct ownership: standards adopted by multiple teams, architecture for company-wide programs, and mentoring senior engineers across boundaries.\nTrack record of defining and delivering multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives that shaped org direction and resolved high-ambiguity problems.\nExperience leading significant refactoring, migration, or system-health work that improved a team or group's velocity and reliability.\nFluency in modern backend and infrastructure ecosystems such as Kubernetes, event streaming, distributed data stores, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability tooling.\nNice to haves/Bonus Points (Preferred Requirements):\nDirect experience building or scaling advertising, ad-serving, auction, marketplace, recommendation, or other real-time decisioning systems.\nFamiliarity with advertising concepts such as targeting, pacing, bidding, frequency management, attribution, incrementality, and measurement.\nExperience operating at very high request rates with strict tail-latency requirements.\nExperience designing multi-region or highly available distributed systems and planning for traffic growth, regional failures, and capacity constraints.\nExperience building backend infrastructure that supports real-time ML inference, ranking, recommendation, targeting, or personalization.\nDemonstrated success improving system throughput, latency, reliability, or infrastructure efficiency at significant production scale.\nStrong judgment about distributed systems complexity, including when sophisticated patterns are necessary and when simpler designs scale further and operate more reliably.\nPrior Staff-level experience driving architectural direction across multiple teams, services, or product domains.\nCompensation: At Fetch, we offer competitive compensation packages including base, equity, and benefits to the exceptional folks we hire. Discover our benefits and how our employees live rewarded at https://fetch.com/careers.\nAt Fetch, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure through:\nEquity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.\n401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.\nBenefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.\nContinuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.\nEmployee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.\nPaid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break. \nRobust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule. \nCalvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!\nFlexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)\nFetch is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for all individuals. 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