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Principal Software Engineer, Growth

Fetch
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Remote
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  • Architect and Scale Growth Platforms Design and evolve the systems that power Fetch’s core engagement experiences, including loyalty mechanics, notifications, gaming systems, and retention-driving product features. Ensure platforms scale reliably to support millions of users and high event throughput.
  • Design and evolve the systems that power Fetch’s core engagement experiences, including loyalty mechanics, notifications, gaming systems, and retention-driving product features. Ensure platforms scale reliably to support millions of users and high event throughput.
  • Enable Rapid Experimentation and Learning Shape the experimentation infrastructure used by Growth teams, enabling faster A/B testing, iteration, and measurement. Help engineering teams balance experimentation velocity with platform stability and maintainable architecture.
  • Shape the experimentation infrastructure used by Growth teams, enabling faster A/B testing, iteration, and measurement. Help engineering teams balance experimentation velocity with platform stability and maintainable architecture.
  • Lead System Design and Technical Strategy Guide architecture decisions across Growth systems, ensuring services remain scalable, observable, and resilient. Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational complexity, and improve developer velocity.
  • Guide architecture decisions across Growth systems, ensuring services remain scalable, observable, and resilient. Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational complexity, and improve developer velocity.
  • Drive Cross-Team Technical Alignment Partner with Product, Data, Platform, and Growth Marketing teams to translate business growth goals into scalable technical systems. Influence technical direction across multiple teams and ensure architectural consistency.
  • Partner with Product, Data, Platform, and Growth Marketing teams to translate business growth goals into scalable technical systems. Influence technical direction across multiple teams and ensure architectural consistency.
  • Improve Platform Performance and Reliability Establish standards for reliability, performance, and observability across Growth services. Improve system resilience under high traffic, and ensure services can support sustained user growth.
  • Establish standards for reliability, performance, and observability across Growth services. Improve system resilience under high traffic, and ensure services can support sustained user growth.
  • Mentor and Elevate Engineering Teams Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers and emerging technical leaders. Raise the bar for system design, operational excellence, and engineering craftsmanship across the organization.
  • Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers and emerging technical leaders. Raise the bar for system design, operational excellence, and engineering craftsmanship across the organization.
  • Accelerate Engineering Productivity Champion tooling and development practices that increase engineering velocity, including AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, improved CI/CD pipelines, and better observability.
  • Champion tooling and development practices that increase engineering velocity, including AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, improved CI/CD pipelines, and better observability.
  • Model Technical Excellence Lead by example through thoughtful architecture, pragmatic decision making, and strong engineering fundamentals. Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and measurable impact.
  • Lead by example through thoughtful architecture, pragmatic decision making, and strong engineering fundamentals. Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and measurable impact.
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including deep experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
  • Strong background in backend architecture, distributed systems, or high-scale platform infrastructure
  • Proven ability to design systems that support high-throughput user-facing applications
  • Experience building or scaling experimentation platforms, engagement systems, or growth-focused product infrastructure
  • Demonstrated experience influencing technical strategy across multiple teams without direct authority
  • Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, and operational best practices
  • Experience partnering closely with Product, Data, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes
  • Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and communicate complex technical decisions clearly
  • Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and system quality
  • Experience working on growth, retention, loyalty, marketplace, or monetization systems
  • Experience supporting high-volume consumer mobile applications
  • Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, event-driven architectures, and analytics pipelines
  • Experience designing systems that support real-time notifications, messaging systems, or user engagement platforms
  • Strong programming experience in Go, Java, Kotlin, or similar backend languages
  • Experience improving developer velocity through platform improvements or internal tooling
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for non-technical partners
  • Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
  • 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
  • Benefits for humans and pets : We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
  • Continuing Education : Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
  • Employee 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.
  • Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
  • Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
  • Calvin 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!
  • Flexible Work Environment : Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices in Madison, Birmingham, or Chicago. 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.

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