Senior Backend Engineer II, CI/CD

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and uphold CI/CD tools, automated verification systems, and developer workflows that enhance software delivery.

• Take full ownership of intricate technical projects, overseeing everything from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.

• Create backend services, internal tools, and automation that facilitate build, test, validation, and deployment processes.

• Advance automated testing capabilities, such as integration testing, end-to-end testing, contract testing, and performance regression testing.

• Develop and refine automated quality gates, merge validation, and verification workflows to boost software reliability and confidence in releases.

• Enhance CI/CD performance through strategies like caching, parallelization, infrastructure upgrades, and more efficient test execution.

• Improve observability and developer feedback by making pipeline health, test failures, performance regressions, and deployment results more diagnosable.

• Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, SRE, security, frontend, and mobile engineers to refine testing practices and developer workflows.

• Participate in technical design decisions, document solutions, and mentor engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

• Investigate opportunities to integrate AI-assisted development and automated verification into engineering workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, including practical experience with backend systems, CI/CD tooling, developer infrastructure, or platform engineering.

• Solid software engineering fundamentals with a background in designing, building, and maintaining production-quality backend services, APIs, or internal tools.

• Experience in creating or enhancing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing infrastructure, and software delivery workflows.

• Practical experience with integration testing, end-to-end testing, contract testing, or performance regression testing.

• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and debugging tools, including the ability to diagnose complex application or pipeline reliability issues.

• Understanding of API contracts, schema validation, distributed systems, and service integration patterns.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and modern DevOps practices, including technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Capability to independently resolve complex technical issues, assess trade-offs, and produce maintainable solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a track record of working across engineering teams.

• A developer-centric mindset with an interest in AI-assisted development and emerging engineering tools.

• Preferred: Experience in building internal developer platforms, CI/CD verification frameworks, or developer productivity tools.

• Preferred: Familiarity with CI platforms such as GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar systems.

• Preferred: Experience in developing backend services or automation using Go, Python, or similar programming languages.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, or other cloud infrastructure technologies.

• Preferred: Experience in constructing automated quality gates, contract testing frameworks, or reproducible test environments.

• Preferred: Familiarity with progressive delivery, canary deployments, merge queues, or artifact-based deployment workflows.

• Preferred: Experience in enhancing build and test performance across large codebases or distributed engineering environments.

• Preferred: Experience applying AI or autonomous agents in software development, testing, CI/CD, or operational workflows.

• Preferred: Contributions to open-source projects or involvement in developer tooling, infrastructure, or software engineering communities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity: We provide full-time employees with equity in Fetch, allowing everyone to share in Fetch’s growth.

• 401(k): Fetch matches your contributions dollar for dollar up to 4% of your eligible pay.

• Benefits for humans and pets: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans are available for all, including your pets.

• Continuing Education: Fetch offers $10,000 per year in education reimbursement.

• Employee Resource Groups: Engage in employee-led groups dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue, and advocacy. The ERGs work alongside our Inclusion Council, which includes members of executive leadership.

• Paid Time Off: In addition to our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays and a week-long break at year-end.

• Robust Leave Policies: Enjoy 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all employees, plus an additional 6 weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents, along with a flexible return-to-work schedule.

• Calvin Care Cash: Employees welcoming new family members will receive a one-time $2,000 incentive to assist with childcare, clothing, diapers, and more!

• Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our beautiful offices or work fully remotely from anywhere in the US for US-based roles. We ensure you are equipped with the necessary hardware and software to perform your job comfortably from home.