Senior SDET at Pleased - Remote EMEA Role — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Remote-First with Nomad-Friendly Flexibility
This role is explicitly remote-first and structured around a core hours window of 10am–3pm in your local time zone. That's a significant advantage for digital nomads — you're not pinned to a single timezone, and the 5-hour overlap window gives you real flexibility in choosing where to base yourself. Whether you're in Lisbon (WET), Tbilisi (GET+4), or Nairobi (EAT+3), the core hours policy can accommodate you as long as you're within a reasonable EMEA timezone band.
Visa & Location Considerations
- Portugal (Lisbon): Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa (D8) is ideal for EMEA-based remote workers. Cost of living is moderate — a comfortable lifestyle runs ~€2,000–€2,500/month.
- Georgia (Tbilisi): No visa required for most nationalities for up to 1 year. Very low cost of living (~$1,200–$1,500/month) and a thriving nomad community.
- Serbia (Belgrade): Affordable, no visa for most Europeans for 90 days, growing tech scene, ~€1,200–€1,800/month.
Travel-Relevant Perks
- Top-of-the-line equipment provided — no need to invest in your own hardware.
- Annual company retreats offer in-person networking without a permanent office requirement.
- Quarterly performance bonuses add income predictability for budgeting travel.
The async-compatible schedule and EMEA-wide hiring make this one of the more nomad-accessible senior engineering roles available.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to improve software quality across the engineering organization through automation, testing platforms, quality standards, and engineering enablement. This is not a feature-testing role. The focus is on building scalable quality solutions and helping teams own quality.
Our Stack
- Programming language: Python
- DB: MySQL / MongoDB
- DevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S
- Web: Playwright
What You'll Be Doing
- Build and maintain test automation frameworks
- Develop reusable testing tools and libraries
- Improve test reliability and reduce flaky tests
- Manage test data and testing infrastructure
- Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Implement release quality gates
- Improve deployment confidence and testing efficiency
- Define testing strategies and best practices
- Support teams with complex testing challenges
- Review solutions from a quality and reliability perspective
- Coach engineers on testing and quality ownership
- Create standards, documentation, and guidelines
- Drive adoption of quality practices across teams
- Analyze incidents and prevent regressions
- Track quality metrics and identify improvement opportunities
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of testing experience
- Strong coding skills (Python or any other programming language, but willing to write in Python)
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar (we use Playwright)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of software architecture and distributed systems
What's in It for You
- Pleased is a remote-first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance-based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Core working hours are 10am–3pm in your local time zone, with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top-of-the-line equipment provided
- Annual company retreats for great internal networking opportunities
Interview Process
- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Live coding interview
- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 mins)
- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
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