About Fearless Digital
Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.
Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.
Fearless Digital Benefits
Benefits Eligibility:
- Full-time team members are eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless.
- Part-time, intern, 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits.
- Life-friendly schedules.
- Family-friendly workplace.
- We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
- Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances.
- Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting.
- Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
- Total Pet Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Up to 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%.
- PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.
- Jan 1 - March 31 100% January
- April 1 - June 30 75% April
- July 1 - Sept 30 50% July
- Oct 1 - Dec 31 25% October
Compensation
Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.
We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work. Our approach to compensation is intended to ensure our total package serves all of your needs and includes base pay, medical and other benefits, performance rewards, 401k matching, plus a few perks (tech and wellness reimbursement programs)! Our salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location and provide team members salary growth within a salary grade over time. Team members automatically progress within a salary range through annual increases (given to reward service at Fearless) or merit increases (given to reward an individual's demonstrated performance and growth within the position). Fearless team members are also eligible for discretionary bonuses based on company performance.
The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.
- AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $66,510 (min) - $84,800 (mid) - $103,090(max)
- NC Residents: $68,567 (min) - $87,422 (mid) - $106,278 (max)
- DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $71,995 (min) - $91,793 (mid) - $111,592 (max)
- DC Residents: $80,908 (min) - $103,158 (mid) - $125,408 (max)
- CA & NY Residents: $83,651 (min) - $106,655 (mid) - $129,659 (max)
The maximum salary for this role is $107,000.
Location:
- In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our office is located in Baltimore.
Fearless is looking for a Engineer I to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).
What You’ll Be Doing
We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.
The Engineer I builds, tests, and maintains diverse software systems that solve customer and user problems. They deliver solutions with guidance from experienced team members and based upon documented requirements. Their tasks are performed in a variety of domains including front-end, back-end, operations, testing, and data science.
We need your Engineer skills! What other skills will help you succeed at Fearless? Glad you asked! We’re excited about candidates who can accomplish the following:
Responsibilities And Contributions
Organizational and Leadership Role
- Takes initiative for their own growth through personal leadership.
Functional Role
- Delivers code solutions in accordance with team code expectations; follows all team processes for submitting and reviewing code.
- Performs manual exploratory testing individually and with the team, as appropriate for the project test strategy.
- Implements scripts for automation or data processing.
- Assists with refining tasks and user stories by conducting research, preparing for backlog refinement, and asking questions.
- Troubleshoots and debugs technical problems.
- Participates in peer-reviews of assigned tasks and related code.
- Works with the team to continuously learn and improve.
Must-Have Skills
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies
- Basic understanding of computer systems including web-development, persistence, networking, and operations.
- Understanding of the syntax at least one programming language like Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.
- Experience with HTML, Javascript and CSS syntax.
- Experience building web applications using object-oriented/functional programming concepts.
- Demonstrated interest in and ability to learn new systems and technology quickly.
- Understanding of basic git actions like cloning, creating branches, navigating between branches, staging code for commit, committing code, resetting, and merging.
- Demonstrated professional work experience with Java, SpringBoot, JavaScript and/or TypeScript, React.
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
- At least 4 years of work experience as a software engineer/developer.
- Ability to obtain Public Trust Clearance before starting position.
Icing-on-the-Cake Skills
- Demonstrated work experience with AWS, Kubernetes, SQL/Oracle, Kafka, Cypress, Groovy, and/or Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Loom, etc.).
So, what’s next?
Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every employee we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum
- Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
- Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
- Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.