Principal SDET
Online shopping has changed. Today's eCommerce runs on selling products, not brands. SamCart is the only eCommerce software platform built for creators, by creators, who want to build a profitable digital business and experience personal freedom and growth.
Principal SDET
About SamCart Engineering
At SamCart, we are not coders - we are craftsmen. We are professionals who take pride in, and hold ourselves accountable for, the applications that we build. We practice discipline in our approach, demanding of ourselves highly performant, thoroughly tested, and exquisitely designed code. We value honest communication, close collaboration, and lifelong continuous learning. We are deeply empathetic to the impact our software has on the lives of our customers; and we readily accept that great responsibility with humility, determination, and skill.
SamCart is looking for an innovative, talented, and experienced Principal Software Development Engineer in Test to join our team. In this role, you will join our elite team of high caliber engineers, product managers and designers to build a brand-new, world-class e-commerce engine to power the future of SamCart. Leveraging extensive experience in automation and testing technologies, you select and implement the tools and establish the processes that will deliver a high level of confidence in the applications that you collaborate to build. You will also evangelize best practices to other test engineers and teams within SamCart through influence and effective leadership skills.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a testing automation platform and tooling in AWS for a greenfield software project.
- Collaborate with engineers to define and implement testing in parallel with the software development process.
- Contribute automated end-to-end tests validating that all deployed software meets quality standards and acceptance criteria.
- Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering alignment in strategy and values.
- Evangelize best practices, leading by example in code health, testability, and maintainability; champion clean code and the concept of the test pyramid.
Qualifications:
- Expert knowledge of web application testing automation tools (Selenium, CypressJS, Postman, etc.)
- Advanced proficiency with cloud-hosted continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, etc.)
- Significant experience with software engineering tools (Git, Docker, etc.)
- Fluency in scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.
- Unwavering commitment to modern software processes and best-practices including test-driven development, infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, with a consistent track record of mentoring and developing team members.
- At least 7 years of professional experience developing automated test suites.
This is what you'll love about SamCart
Our co-founders always say "Their success is our success" and we believe that about our people too! We want everyone to love their job at least 80% of the time and when you are successful, the whole team is successful.
- Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire from and for a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
- We have unlimited PTO with an encouraged 14-day minimum to empower our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their day-to-day lives.
- Yay, we have 401K!
- Health Insurance premiums are covered 100% by SamCart for you +1, be it a significant other or child.
- Supportive Parental leave policies for all parents
- Career growth and development are essential here at SamCart and we want all team members to build sustainable, future-proof and adaptable careers.
- Self-Care is important, which is why we offer a monthly wellness credit.
Our Core Values
Be Transparent - We communicate openly, thrive on feedback, and check our egos at the door.
Be Human - We operate with compassion and always assume positive intent.
Be an Owner - We are all owners of the business. We take pride in our work and know that the success of our customers and the business contributes to our individual success.
Be Creative and Commit - We collaborate, create resourceful solutions, and work as a team to get it done.
Be You - We are stronger together because of the unique qualities we each bring to the team. We believe in balance, making time for fun, and enjoying the work we do!