Staff Backend Engineer, Fetch
CI/CD
Salary not provided
+ Equity
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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Terraform
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Senior and Expert level
Boston
Chicago
New York
Remote from US
Mobile shopping and rewards platform
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Mobile shopping and rewards platform
1001+ employees
B2CLifestyleeCommerce
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
+ Equity
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Abstract
Terraform
Bitrise
Senior and Expert level
Boston
Chicago
New York
Remote from US
1001+ employees
B2CLifestyleeCommerce
Company mission
To empower consumers to live rewarded and help brands create lifelong customers through the power of Fetch Points.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building or operating CI/CD, developer infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related systems
- Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership, including leading ambiguous initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
- A track record of growing other engineers through mentorship, technical guidance, or the standards and practices you have put in place
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across application and infrastructure boundaries
- Experience designing and operating modern CI/CD systems at meaningful scale
- Strong understanding of build systems, testing infrastructure, deployment strategies, artifact management, and release automation
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
- Strong understanding of containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and reliability problems across distributed build or deployment systems
- Strong understanding of software delivery tradeoffs including speed, cost, reliability, developer experience, and operational complexity
- Ability to write production-quality software and automation rather than relying exclusively on configuration or third-party tooling
- Strong communication skills with experience influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority
- High degree of ownership and agency. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, defining a path forward, and driving toward pragmatic and maintainable solutions
- A developer-focused mindset with a strong interest in understanding how engineers interact with the systems you build
- An AI-forward mentality and willingness to explore emerging tools that can meaningfully improve engineering effectiveness
Desirable
- Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling at medium-to-large engineering organizations
- Experience with CI platforms such as GitHub Actions, Bitrise or similar systems
- Experience with Kubernetes-based build or CI infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
- Experience with observability systems and establishing SLOs for developer-facing infrastructure
- Experience designing progressive delivery systems, canary deployments, feature rollouts, or automated rollback mechanisms
- Experience improving large monorepo or multi-repository build systems
- Experience working across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure environments
- Experience developing internal platforms or paved roads that abstract infrastructure complexity for application engineers
- Experience applying AI or autonomous agents to software development, testing, CI/CD, or operational workflows
- Open-source contributions or involvement in developer tooling, infrastructure, or DevOps communities
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer focused on CI/CD Engineering to help evolve the systems, infrastructure, and developer workflows that power software delivery across Fetch
- You will improve the tools and pipelines that power our releases. This includes surfacing meaningful feedback for developers, optimizing CI performance, improving testing and quality gates, and building automation that makes shipping code faster and safer
- This is a generalist platform engineering role with a strong DevOps and infrastructure orientation. You will work across backend, mobile, frontend, platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling rather than specializing in a single application stack
- At the Staff level, your impact will extend beyond implementing individual pipelines or tools. You will identify systemic bottlenecks across the software development lifecycle, establish technical direction, influence engineering standards, and lead multi-quarter initiatives that improve how hundreds of engineers build, test, and deploy software
- You will partner closely with engineering teams to understand friction in their workflows and build scalable solutions that improve developer velocity while maintaining a high bar for reliability and quality
- Set technical direction for CI/CD systems and software delivery infrastructure across Fetch
- Own the CI/CD roadmap over multiple quarters, aligning investment with org priorities, cost tradeoffs, and engineering strategy, and making the case for where to invest and where not to
- Design, build, and evolve scalable CI pipelines, deployment systems, and developer automation
- Improve feedback loops by making build failures, test results, quality signals, and deployment health easier for developers to understand and act on
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across build, test, merge, deployment, and release workflows
- Improve CI performance through caching, parallelization, workload optimization, infrastructure improvements, and thoughtful test execution strategies
- Design quality gates and automated safeguards that allow teams to move quickly without compromising reliability
- Build tools and platform capabilities that standardize common software delivery patterns while allowing teams to move independently
- Partner with infrastructure, SRE, security, backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to improve the reliability and scalability of our software delivery systems
- Establish metrics and observability for CI/CD systems, including developer feedback time, pipeline reliability, infrastructure utilization, and deployment performance
- Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and introduce new technologies when they provide meaningful improvements over existing solutions
- Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption
- Drive adoption of new tools and workflows through documentation, technical guidance, training, and hands-on collaboration
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, and establish feedback loops, review standards, or coaching practices that raise the technical bar for platform, infrastructure, and developer productivity engineering across teams
- Explore how AI and agentic development workflows can improve build, test, review, deployment, and operational processes
Our take
Leading mobile shopping and loyalty platform Fetch has seen explosive success in recent years. Its concept is simple: users receive spendable points in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts.
The app has tens of millions of daily active users with even more downloads, and has seen impressive growth, having now reached 'unicorn' status twice over. This should come as no surprise. Brand reinforcement is crucial to customer retention and acquisition - but it is harder than ever, with the fragmentation of choice on the market and the declining efficacy of marketing. So material loyalty benefits are likely to prove a crucial tool in creating and leveraging a strong customer base.
Whilst Fetch faces competition from similar receipt-scan rewards platforms like ReceiptPal and Ibotta, it grew into a profitable company in late 2023. And its using its most recent Morgan Stanley-backed funding to aggressively add brand partners at a competitive pace and onboard staff at a level that promises strong continued growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2022
$120m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$210m
SERIES D
Total funding: $456.6m
Company benefits
- Equity: Hop on the rocketship and have your own stake in Fetch's success with generous equity.
- 401k Match: Fetch matches 100% of the first 4% of your 401(k) contribution.
- People Benefits: Enjoy a competitive suite of ebenfits to promote health for you and your family,. Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance. Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Account, with automatic employer HSA contributions per pay period. Family forming benefit with $10k lifetime stipend.
- Pet Benefits: We know your furry friends are family, too. Pet insurance is fully covered for your first pet.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides $10,000+/year in education reimbursement support for job-related courses or programs.
- Flexible Paid Time Off: At Fetch, you'll plan your time off as you see fit with our flexible PTO policy. On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays as well as a year-end-week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: Fetch offers generous leave time for health and personal needs, including 20 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers and 14 weeks for secondary caregivers + $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Experience our beautiful work spaces, or get things done from the comfort of your couch. Choose what's best for each day.
Leadership
Wes Schroll
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Fetch while an undergrad at UW-Madison and grew the company into the nation's No. 1 rewards app, connecting millions of consumers with their favorite brands.
Tyler Kennedy
(Co-Founder & SVP of Operations)Studied Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded his first company, Baker's Marine Services, a yacht detailing company, when they were only fourteen.
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