Backend Engineer, Apprenticeship
Fetch Rewards (View all Jobs)
United States (Remote)
Interview Process
1. Short take-home project 2. 50 min screening interview that includes discussion of project 3. 5 hr (w/ breaks) final interview that involves speaking with your future manager and a non-technical product manager, a real-world coding problem, and high-level and low-level system design problems.
Programming Languages Mentioned
JavaScript, Python, Swift, Java, SQL
What we’re building and why we’re building it.
Every month, millions of people use America’s Rewards App, earning rewards for buying brands they love – and a whole lot more. Whether shopping in the grocery aisle, grabbing a bite at the drive-through or playing a favorite mobile game, Fetch empowers consumers to live rewarded throughout their day. To date, we’ve delivered more than $1 billion in rewards and earned more than 5 million five-star reviews from happy users.
It’s not just our users who believe in Fetch: with investments from SoftBank, Univision, and Hamilton Lane, and partnerships ranging from challenger brands to Fortune 500 companies, Fetch is reshaping how brands and consumers connect in the marketplace. When you work at Fetch, you play a vital role in a platform that drives brand loyalty and creates lifelong consumers with the power of Fetch points. User and partner success are at the heart of everything we do, and we extend that same commitment to our employees.
Ranked as one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for two years in a row, Fetch fosters a people-first culture rooted in trust, accountability, and innovation. We encourage our employees to challenge ideas, think bigger, and always bring the fun to Fetch.
Fetch is an equal employment opportunity employer.
The Role:
Fetch’s next step in evolving the shopping experience will require growing the engineering team. We’re looking for Backend Engineer Apprentice to contribute immediately and work on real features that impact our customers and partners. You will build highly performant backend services to integrate seamlessly with our data stores, message queues, mobile and web platforms, and other systems. You’ll be working on a small, multi-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist and other roles. Success in this role requires the ability to take on challenging problems and design & develop an amazing solution with light mentorship of an experienced team member. You must be able to work full time hours immediately upon being hired, we are not hiring for the future, we are hiring for today.
The ideal candidate:
- High level languages (Go, Java, Python, Node.js)
- An understanding of functional or object-oriented programming
- Ability to learn quickly
- A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment
- Effective communication, including the ability to translate and explain technical issues to non-technical team members
- You have experience with:
- Object oriented or functional programming languages
- Relational and eventually consistent databases (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
- Version control system (Git)
- Test writing and quality assurance
- System Design
- Bonus Points:
- Full-stack development (Kotlin, Javascript, React, Swift)
- Messages queue and event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Redis Streams)
- Continuous development
- In-memory data stores and caches (Redis, Memcache)
- Distributed systems
- This is a 3 month program where you will be given challenging and meaningful work
- You will gain incredible experience and grow as an engineer
- There is no expectation that this role will convert to a full time employee
- $40 per hour
- 40 hours per week of work, minimum
- There are no health benefits during the apprenticeship
- We don’t sponsor H1Bs on an Apprenticeship due to legal limitations
- Get an onboarding buddy on your 1st day
- FREE: Mac laptop, monitors, etc. whatever is needed to be successful!
- Work on the same projects as our perm employees, you are not treated any differently!
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