At PLANEKS, we believe people do their best work when they have the freedom to grow. We build a culture where talented professionals can focus on meaningful work, grow continuously, and see the results of their contributions.
What We Offer
100% remote work opportunity and flexitime - choose working hours between 8:00-20:00 Kyiv time
Personal Growth Budget in USD (Travel, Health & Psychotherapy, Sports, Education & Training, Software, Work Equipment).
Competitive compensation in USD with regular salary reviews.
Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
Continuous professional growth through mentorship, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
English Speaking Club with a native speaker.
Access to AI tools, including coding assistants for engineers and LLM subscriptions for non-technical specialists.
Transparent processes, flat management structure, and a supportive team culture.
About the Role
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to take ownership of test automation and software quality across our engineering team.
As the first SDET, you will build the test framework, define the testing strategy, and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with the VP of Engineering, Staff Engineers, and the infrastructure team to help developers ship software faster and with confidence.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on making automated testing reliable and an integral part of the development process.
About Project
The project is a hospitality technology platform that helps restaurants, hotels, and coffee shops manage tip pooling, instant tip payouts, cashless tip distribution, reporting, compliance, labor costs, purchases, sales forecasting, and payroll.
The platform handles financial transactions where reliability and accuracy are critical. The engineering team is building the next generation of the platform and increasing release frequency. Reliable automated testing is essential to prevent regressions and ensure critical financial workflows function correctly.
The team works remotely across Canada, Japan, and Europe and follows two-week sprints.
Required Hard Skills
Substantial experience building and owning test automation for a production web product.
Strong engineering skills. The technology stack includes Python and Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, Docker, and React with TypeScript, running on DigitalOcean. You don't need every piece of it, but you should be comfortable working with this type of system and in a large existing codebase to build the appropriate test strategy and infrastructure.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and making them a deployment gate, including parallelization, quarantining flaky tests, test environments, and seeded data.
Understanding of what belongs at the unit, integration, and end-to-end testing layers, and the ability to explain these decisions to developers.
Ability to work closely with developers and infrastructure engineers to improve testing practices and make it easier for developers to write and use tests.
Sound operational judgment when testing financial workflows, understanding that a missed regression in a tips platform can mean someone doesn't get paid, knowing which high-risk scenarios to test first, and being willing to communicate when software isn't ready to ship.
Ability to work independently across a distributed team, communicate clearly in writing, and drive work without constant supervision.
Nice to Have
Experience with Playwright.
Experience in fintech, payments, or payroll.
Experience testing third-party API integrations, contract testing, or service virtualization.
Experience with visual regression testing tools such as Chromatic.
Experience using AI tools to write and maintain tests effectively.
Experience being the first test automation engineer in a company.
Required Soft Skills
Ownership: Ability to take responsibility for the test strateg
