About us
GitHub Actions is the fastest-growing CI/CD system today, and Blacksmith is building tools to help companies improve their experience with GitHub Actions by
Offering drop-in replacement Github Actions runners that are up to 2x faster and 50-75% cheaper
Helping companies gain insights into their CI pipelines by helping them breakdown their CI performance and spending.
We believe the current developer experience around testing and CI today is fraught with friction. Our long-term mission is to address common challenges around testing and CI and help developers be more productive.
Blacksmith was founded by three engineers from Cockroach Labs and Faire. We are well-funded and backed by YC and a tier 1 VC firm.
Over 50+ companies, including Fieldguide, Muzz, Slope, and GitBook, trust Blacksmith to power their GitHub Actions.
About the role
We are looking for a founding frontend engineer to work alongside the founders. You will be the first outside hire. We are interested in someone who
Has 3+ years of professional experience
Experience in building performant frontends that wrangle a lot of data, observability traces, logs, etc. Our frontend stack is Typescript, Next.js, react-query, and TailwindCSS.
Outside of that, we would like someone who shares the following:
Can independently drive features end-to-end
We love folks who care deeply about developer experience and are opinionated about it
Deep customer empathy and likes talking to customers
Willingness to write blog posts about technical challenges you encounter
Has an ownership mindset
Benefits