Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Fetch Engineering as a Backend Engineer and contribute to evolving the shopping experience by building highly performant backend services. You will work on a small team, take on challenging problems, and design & develop amazing solutions with little assistance.

Requirements

• A deep understanding of functional and object-oriented programming
• Ability to plan and implement complex data models
• Ability to optimize poorly performing code, data queries, and network requests
• Understanding of the complexity and failure domains of micro-services and distributed architectures
• Ability to troubleshoot large scale production systems and explain both short and long-term solutions with trade-offs
• Effective communication, including the ability to translate and explain technical issues to non-technical team members
• High-level languages (Go)
• Relational and eventually consistent databases (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
• In-memory data stores and caches (Redis, Memcache)
• Version control system (Git)
• Test writing and quality assurance
• Service-oriented architecture
• Full-stack development (Kotlin, Javascript, React, Swift)
• Messages queue and event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Redis Streams)
• Continuous development
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics

Responsibilities

• Build highly performant backend services to integrate seamlessly with our data stores, message queues, mobile and web platforms, and other systems
• Work on a small, multi-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist and other roles
• Take on challenging problems and design & develop an amazing solution with little to no assistance

Benefits

• Equity: We also offer 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
• Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, including Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day, 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