Senior Data Platform Engineer, Fetch
$149.5-206.6k
+ Equity
Mobile shopping and rewards platform
Open for applications
Mobile shopping and rewards platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$149.5-206.6k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower consumers to live rewarded and help brands create lifelong customers through the power of Fetch Points.
Role
Who you are
- This is a highly impactful role for engineers who thrive at the intersection of distributed data systems, platform engineering, and software architecture
- 5+ years of experience in data platform, data engineering, or platform engineering roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex systems
- Deep expertise in AWS-based data architectures and cloud-native system design
- Deep experience designing and operating distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spark at scale, batch and streaming workloads)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala, applied to large, production-grade systems
- Proven ability to design, build, and own CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and production operations for critical platform systems
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex, cross-system issues, influence technical decisions, and mentor engineers
- Experience using AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to improve engineering outcomes, code quality, and system reliability
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Desirable
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, MSK) in production environments
- Strong experience with data orchestration frameworks and workflow engines, including design or operational ownership
- Experience defining and improving data observability standards, monitoring strategies, and operational metrics
- Experience owning broader platform or distributed systems domains, including setting standards or paved paths for multiple teams
- Track record of improving developer velocity, reliability, and platform adoption across multiple teams
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you’ll take an architectural and prescriptive role in shaping how data is stored, processed, and orchestrated across the company
- This role owns key platform abstractions and standards, particularly around Iceberg-backed data storage, data contracts, and orchestration patterns
- You’ll apply deep technical judgment to guide platform evolution, mentor engineers, and ensure the data platform scales safely and predictably
- Design and evolve platform components built on Iceberg-backed data storage
- Define how data platform services are structured, composed, and consumed across teams
- Take a prescriptive, system-level approach to platform design to reduce fragmentation and complexity
- Establish standards for data schemas, ownership, and lifecycle management
- Build mechanisms to validate and enforce contracts across ingestion and downstream consumers
- Design and own orchestration patterns within the internal data platform service
- Guide how distributed processing workloads (e.g., Spark-based jobs) are scheduled, retried, and monitored
- Improve platform resilience, failure isolation, and recovery patterns
- Partner with Finance and Engineering to improve cost visibility and efficiency of data workloads
- Mentor Data Platform Engineers and raise the technical bar across the platform team
- Review designs, guide implementation decisions, and influence long-term platform strategy
- Collaborate with Product, Analytics, ML, and Infrastructure teams to align data platform capabilities with business needs
- Act as a trusted technical partner for high-impact data initiatives
- Integrate AI-assisted tooling into data platform workflows to accelerate design, validation, and troubleshooting
- Evaluate emerging AI tools for data and platform engineering, balancing speed with reliability, security, and correctness
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
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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