[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Experiences

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fetch is a technology-driven company focused on building reliable and scalable systems for consumer-facing earning experiences. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and evolve backend architecture that supports rewarded gaming, shopping rewards, and offer platform experiences, impacting user engagement and monetization.ResponsibilitiesDesign and scale core services that power rewarded gaming, shopping rewards, card-linked earning, and offer delivery experiences, building highly available systems that support millions of users and drive measurable business outcomesBuild and evolve backend services that determine offer eligibility, earning qualification, reward attribution, and fulfillment outcomes using real-time transactional, behavioral, and partner-provided signalsDevelop consumer-facing and platform APIs that support offer discovery, reward experiences, earning flows, partner integrations, and internal tooling across Fetch's Ads Experiences ecosystemDesign reliable event-driven systems and data flows that process high volumes of transactions, installs, purchases, and earning events while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and operational efficiencyBuild platform capabilities that enable experimentation, feature rollouts, configuration-driven behavior, and rapid product iteration while maintaining system integrity and reliabilityDevelop observability, monitoring, and operational tooling for revenue-generating systems by instrumenting tracing, structured logging, alerting, and metrics that provide visibility into platform health, performance, earning attribution, fulfillment accuracy, and system behaviorPartner across Product, Data, Analytics, and Engineering to define platform capabilities, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and ensure technical investments align with business objectives and long-term platform strategyLead architectural decisions across multiple services and domains, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and development velocity as Ads Experiences continues to growImprove engineering leverage by identifying opportunities for platformization, reusable services, and shared infrastructure that accelerate development across multiple teams and product areasRaise the bar on backend architecture, operational excellence, and engineering standards, helping teams build systems that are scalable, observable, resilient, and easy to evolve over timeSkills12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend systems that support critical, user-facing products at scaleDemonstrated ownership of backend architecture for complex, distributed systems, including long-term evolution, scalability planning, failure modes, and operational maturityDeep expertise in API design and service boundaries for systems that process transactions, business rules, eligibility decisions, attribution, or other high-volume workflowsProven experience designing and operating event-driven architectures and data-intensive systems that integrate multiple internal and external data sourcesStrong track record of building highly reliable systems with comprehensive observability, including monitoring, tracing, alerting, performance analysis, and incident response practicesExperience making architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, latency, operational cost, and developer productivity tradeoffsAbility to independently translate ambiguous product and business requirements into robust backend designs with clear technical and operational tradeoffsDemonstrated influence beyond direct ownership, including mentoring senior engineers and setting engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, and system design excellenceDirect experience building monetization, rewards, loyalty, marketplace, advertising, gaming, or other revenue-generating consumer platformsExperience designing systems that support offer delivery, earning attribution, reward fulfillment, campaign execution, recommendation workflows, or partner integrations at scaleExperience defining and operating high-throughput transactional systems where accuracy, consistency, and reliability are critical to the user experience and business outcomesFamiliarity with experimentation platforms, feature flagging systems, and measurement frameworks used to evaluate and optimize consumer experiencesExperience designing backend systems that support personalization, ranking, targeting, or other data-driven product capabilitiesExperience operating event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing systems used for attribution, eligibility, or consumer engagement workflowsFamiliarity with consumer mobile platforms and the backend infrastructure that powers iOS and Android experiencesPrior Staff or Principal-level experience driving architectural direction across teams, platforms, or product domainsCompany OverviewFetch is a consumer-engagement platform that enables users to earn and redeem rewards. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.fetch.com.