At FireHydrant, we’re building tools that modern operations teams are using to respond to incidents and resolve outages in their globally-distributed applications. We bring order when our customers are experiencing chaos.
As a frontend software engineer, you’ll build the foundational services that power our product and scale to meet our customer’s needs. You’ll work with a variety of technologies as you design, build, and ship our rapidly expanding product. As an early member of our team, you’ll get to lay the groundwork for future product innovation and scaling capabilities.
We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building developer-focused products, care deeply about security and customer trust, and are comfortable learning new skills that will deliver value to our customers.
We’ve built our initial MVP and are onboarding customers now. You’ll help us scale our application out by designing and building new platforms and features.
You’ll be working on
Scalable, resilient systems that support product and feature development
Displaying integrations with third-party tools like chat, alerting, project management, source control, and CI/CD
UX design to distill many different streams of information into a cohesive product suite
Responding to production issues through an on-call rotation, our systems need to be working when our customer’s systems aren’t
We’re looking for someone who
Has experience or interest in building distributed, resilient systems that scale
Can pick the right technologies for the job, and can learn the right technologies when they need
Takes ownership of a project from concept to production
Enjoys working with, teaching, and learning from a diverse group of people
Knows why good is better than good enough, but also knows why perfect is the enemy of good
Responsibilities
Write scalable single page applications to effectively display dense information.
Continue developing more effective UX patterns to simplify cognitive load on users.
Participate in an on-call rotation as needed to support the availability needs of the product for our customers; as you can imagine, we need to be more available than them
Example Projects
Build an analytics dashboard used by customer leadership teams in staying informed on the progress of their teams
Create internal status pages to show architecture health to stakeholders
Develop mobile first reporting tools to help on call engineers make more informed decisions about incidents
Interview Process
Quick screening call to get a better understanding of what you’re looking to work on and elaborate on our team’s goals
Video interview with a few members of our current team
Technical walk-through of an open source or personal project you’re proud of. We believe technical interviews should be practical, and are not something done on a whiteboard.
On-site interview in our NYC headquarters
Life at FireHydrant
We’re remote-first with engineers around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square).
We collaborate through Slack, Google Meet, Github pull requests, and Pivotal Tracker.
We believe in a healthy work-life balance; we’re early stage but work reasonable hours and want you to use your vacation time
Benefits
100% employer-paid health, vision and dental premiums for the employee and 50% 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
Education budget: conferences, books, online courses, etc