Head of Quality Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)
Xapo Holdings Limited operates the Xapo Bank business, a regulated Gibraltar-based private bank for Bitcoin holders. Its services include Bitcoin and USD savings, custody, Bitcoin-backed loans, investments, global payments, debit cards, and inheritance planning.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Xapo Holdings Limited
Xapo Holdings Limited operates the Xapo Bank business, which provides regulated banking and digital-asset services from Gibraltar. Xapo Bank offers members integrated Bitcoin and USD accounts, Bitcoin custody, savings products with Bitcoin payouts, Bitcoin-backed lending, access to stocks, ETFs and selected altcoins, global fiat and Bitcoin transactions, debit cards, and beneficiary planning. Services are aimed at private and institutional clients seeking to store, grow, spend, and manage Bitcoin and fiat wealth.
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About the Role
Lead quality engineering strategy for a fully distributed crypto bank. Own coverage standards, quality gates, AI-assisted test tooling, automated release enforcement, quality metrics, and enablement across engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software quality engineering experience owning quality frameworks across engineering organizations.
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD quality gates for unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience with AI-assisted test tooling, LLM-driven test generation, agentic QA pipelines, or equivalent.
- Ability to raise quality standards through tooling, documentation, and frameworks without direct reporting authority.
- Understanding of distributed, event-driven microservices, contract testing, and integration test data strategies.
- Experience defining and tracking quality metrics.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Experience in regulated fintech, payments, or banking environments with mobile-first product delivery.
- Dedicated workspace and reliable internet connection.
- Alignment with Xapo values and Values-Driven Leadership principles.
Responsibilities
- Own coverage standards, quality gates, and quality contribution to the Definition of Done.
- Define coverage baselines and drive adoption across engineering teams.
- Exercise pre-release veto authority when quality gates are not met.
- Design and scale AI-assisted test generation, regression coverage, integration tooling, and agentic QA pipelines.
- Enable Stream Aligned Teams through training, documentation, tooling, and templates.
- Partner on QA environments, test data management, and integration test infrastructure.
- Report on defect escape rate, coverage trends, release veto rate, tooling adoption, and manual intervention.
- Integrate SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning into quality gates.
Benefits
- Fully remote work from anywhere in the world
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible PTO plan
- Yearly learning and development budget
- Autonomy and collaborative teamwork
