SDET Engineer

Summary

Join Fetch Rewards as a Staff SDET and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of software quality engineering. You will define the long-term vision for quality engineering while actively contributing to the codebase and building tools and frameworks that enhance velocity and confidence. This hands-on leadership role requires driving the adoption of AI-assisted testing tools, architecting quality systems, and partnering with developers to improve testing strategies. You will also influence Fetch’s quality culture, define key metrics, and serve as a thought leader in quality engineering. The ideal candidate possesses a proven QA Engineer/SDET background with experience in designing and scaling automated test frameworks, leading quality strategy, and utilizing AI tooling. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a rapidly growing company.

Requirements

• Proven QA Engineer / SDET background, with deep experience in designing and scaling automated test frameworks
• Track record of leading quality strategy and tooling adoption across multiple teams or business units
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling for development and testing. You’re excited by how LLMs are changing the game
• Builder mindset — you’re not just testing things, you’re engineering systems that enable others to test things too
• Comfortable navigating modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, etc)
• Excellent collaborator who thrives in cross-functional teams and can teach/mentor others
• Strong technical communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and adoption of AI-assisted testing tools to accelerate confidence and coverage — think Cursor, GitHub Copilot, TestGPT, and beyond
• Architect quality systems and reusable patterns that enable anyone at Fetch (including non-engineers) to make safe, test-covered code changes
• Design, maintain, and scale robust testing frameworks and automated quality checks that serve as reliable guardrails across CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with developers on unit and integration test patterns, while owning strategy for E2E, regression, and production validations
• Influence Fetch’s quality culture across teams and leadership by establishing best practices, leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring engineers
• Define and track metrics that reflect real-world quality (not just test coverage) and continuously improve based on outcomes
• Serve as a thought leader in Quality Engineering, identifying gaps, advocating for investment, and driving innovation through tools, process, and AI
• Shift Quality Left (and Right): Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to embed quality into every stage of development and release
• Lead by example in a hands-on, domain-focused individual contributor role — this is not an architect or people manager position, but one where deep technical impact and ownership are expected

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with testing infrastructure at scale, mutation testing, chaos engineering, or developer productivity tooling
• Exposure to mutation testing, chaos engineering, or building internal tooling to scale developer/tester productivity
• Experience driving major org-wide initiatives around test automation, platform health, or release reliability

Benefits

• Equity: We offer employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth
• 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%
• Benefits for humans and pets : We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets
• Continuing Education : Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups : Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership
• Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, including Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day, as well as our year-end week-long break
• Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule
• Calvin Care Cash : Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
• Flexible Work Environment : Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices in Madison, Birmingham, or Chicago. Or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home