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Underpin; Flushing (PA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid health, vision and

Unlimited vacation

Wellness program

Home office stipend

Job summary

FireHydrant, a fully distributed US-based company, is hiring a testing framework engineer who will be the first dedicated coding quality expert. You will lead the creation of our end-to-end testing framework and mentor teammates to raise the bar on test design and automation.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Design and Support to deliver reliable solutions that meet customer needs while avoiding unintended issues. We value empathy, inclusion, and learning from a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Mentor engineers to improve quality and testing practices.
• Advocate for robust, maintainable test frameworks.
• Commitment to inclusive, collaborative team culture.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain end-to-end testing framework from scratch.
• Coach engineering teams on quality and test development.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive environment around code quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Support to align solutions with customer needs.

Skills

Mentoring

Quality advocacy

Diversity & inclusion

Emotional intelligence

Tools

rspec

Mocha

Jest

Job description

COVID Update

- We are actively hiring for this position and have been operating as a fully distributed organization across the United States since FireHydrant 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.

About FireHydrant

FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant 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.

About The Role

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Life at FireHydrant

• We’re remote-first with engineers around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square)
• We collaborate through Slack, Zoom, GitHub 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