Engineering Manager, Fetch
Core Services
+ Equity
Mobile shopping and rewards platform
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Mobile shopping and rewards platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ 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
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading and developing software engineers
- Strong backend engineering background with hands-on experience in distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability to remain deeply involved in technical design and architecture
- Experience operating and evolving large-scale backend services in production
- Strong technical judgment and ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs
- Proven ability to partner cross-functionally and represent teams effectively
- Empathy for developer experience and a balanced approach to delivery and quality
Desirable
- Strong programming experience in Go, or demonstrated ability to quickly become productive in Go
- Experience designing and operating service-oriented or event-driven architectures at scale
- Experience improving platform efficiency through service ownership models, tooling, or architectural simplification
- Experience partnering closely with web or client-facing teams that depend on shared backend services
What the job involves
- Fetch is scaling the systems that power tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions of transactions every month. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead backend platform teams within Fetch’s Developer Foundations team, responsible for maintaining and evolving the foundational services that power all Fetch functionality
- This role sits at the center of Fetch’s backend platform. The Core Services teams you lead own a large, distributed service ecosystem that must remain reliable, scalable, and efficient as the company grows. The work requires strong technical judgment, deep systems thinking, and the ability to operate at scale
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow backend engineers while remaining highly hands-on in technical design, architecture, and critical implementation work. You will partner closely with engineering leaders across the company to enable product teams, improve platform efficiency, and ensure focus on the highest-impact work
- Lead and develop backend platform engineers responsible for core services
- Remain highly hands-on in backend system design, architecture, and critical coding efforts
- Set and uphold technical standards for scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
- Partner with engineering teams across Fetch to support shared platform needs
- Represent the platform teams in technical and organizational discussions
- Drive prioritization and strategy, including identifying low-impact work to avoid
- Balance delivery, system health, and developer experience when making tradeoffs
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and empathy
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team growth aligned with approved headcount
- Improve development workflows, tooling, and service ownership models as the platform scales
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development velocity, code quality, and documentation
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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