SDET, Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer

- We are actively hiring for this position and have been operating as a fully distributed organization across the United States since Fire Hydrant started. We anticipate a future where we will be able to periodically gather as a company again, but we put the health and wellbeing of our employees (and their families) first.

Fire Hydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The Fire Hydrant platform includes Incident Response , Status Pages , Retrospectives , and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 30 employees who sit across the United States and we’re growing.

This position will be our first person who's main focus is writing code and acting as a mentor to all of us to ensure our work is the best it can be. We're excited to welcome your expertise and talents! The primary focus of this role will be to help us all level up our skills and ways of thinking about quality, from helping build out our framework to mentoring us in our journey to better support our customers.

• Support the larger Engineering team through building and maintaining our end-to-end testing framework from the ground up.
• Work with all of Engineering as a coach and mentor for how we all think about quality, helping us to learn and refine best-practices for our test development and utilization
• Foster a healthy, thriving and inclusive environment where we all take pride in the quality of our work
• Work closely with Product, Design and Support to ensure that our solutions to customer issues solves their needs without introducing unexpected problems along the way

• Familiarity with rspec, Mocha and Jest
• At least 5 years experience creating testing frameworks from the ground up, then maintaining these tests
• Dedication to working with engineers to learn best-practices for ensuring quality
• Experience getting automated tests into automated deployment pipelines
• Passion for working with, teaching, and learning from a diverse group of people.
• Emotional intelligence and understanding that people are more important than technology.

• We’re remote-first with engineers around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square)
• We collaborate through Slack, Zoom, Git Hub pull requests, Notion, and Clubhouse
• We believe in a healthy work-life balance; we’re early stage but work reasonable hours and encourage you and your team to enjoy both your vacation time and your time at work
• 100% employer-paid health, vision and dental premiums for the employee and 75% of dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy with a minimum requirement of three weeks off per-year
• Wellness program: reimbursements for your gym membership, athletic equipment, nutrition plans, etc
• A stipend to outfit your home office beyond the laptop/monitor