Staff Backend Engineer, Ads Platform

🔥 44 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fetch

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

👥 B2C

📣 Marketing

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 Later Stage VC on 2026-05

B2C • Marketing

Fetch is a consumer mobile rewards app that lets users scan receipts to earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards and other rewards. The app awards points for everyday purchases (groceries, fuel, meals, games, etc. ), offers in-app games and promotions, and provides a business-facing offering (Fetch for Business) and browser extension. Fetch reports millions of monthly earners, millions of app reviews, and over $1B in rewards redeemed. The service emphasizes easy receipt scanning, point accumulation, and low-effort rewards for shoppers.

📋 Description

• Design and scale high-throughput, low-latency backend systems powering Fetch’s advertising platform • Own architecture across ad selection, targeting, pacing, delivery, attribution, and measurement services • Design for reliability, resilience, graceful degradation, observability, SLOs, and alerting • Evolve event-driven and data-intensive architectures across stores, streaming, messaging, caching, and real-time processing • Set backend, reliability, and performance standards adopted by multiple teams • Lead refactoring, migration, and system-health initiatives • Define and deliver multi-quarter initiatives shaping Ads and Platform direction • Solve complex reliability, performance, and scalability problems spanning multiple teams • Partner with Ads, Product, Platform, Data, and ML teams • Mentor senior engineers, lead technical design reviews, and raise engineering standards

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at significant production scale • Deep understanding of partitioning, replication, consistency, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure isolation, and coordination • Strong track record diagnosing performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure • Expertise in API design, service boundaries, event-driven architectures, streaming, messaging, distributed stores, and caching • Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems, including scalability planning, performance optimization, failure modes, and long-term evolution • Experience building highly reliable production systems with metrics, tracing, structured logging, alerting, capacity planning, and incident response • Experience making architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, latency, consistency, operational cost, complexity, and developer productivity • Ability to translate ambiguous product and business requirements into robust backend designs • Org-level influence beyond direct ownership, including standards adopted by multiple teams and mentoring senior engineers • Track record defining and delivering multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives • Experience leading significant refactoring, migration, or system-health work • Fluency in Kubernetes, event streaming, distributed data stores, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability tooling • Preferred: experience with advertising, ad-serving, auction, marketplace, recommendation, or real-time decisioning systems • Preferred: familiarity with targeting, pacing, bidding, frequency management, attribution, incrementality, and measurement • Preferred: experience with very high request rates, strict tail latency, multi-region systems, ML inference, ranking, recommendation, targeting, or personalization • Preferred: prior Staff-level experience driving architectural direction

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity: full-time employees receive equity in Fetch • 401(k) matching dollar for dollar, up to 4% of eligible pay • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, including pets • $10,000 per year in education reimbursement • Employee Resource Groups and Inclusion Council participation • Flexible PTO • 9 paid holidays • Year-end week-long break • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave • 6 additional weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents • Flexible return-to-work schedule • One-time $2,000 Calvin Care Cash incentive for employees welcoming new family members • Flexible work environment and fully remote work from anywhere in the US for US-based roles • Hardware and software provided for home working

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