QA Engineer
Pod Network is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for fair, high-performance global markets. It provides MEV-free batch auctions, on-chain market primitives, EVM compatibility, and live 24/7 perpetual futures.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Pod Network
Pod Network operates a high-performance Layer-1 network designed for fair, global markets. Its streaming, leaderless architecture supports transaction finality in under 150 milliseconds and throughput exceeding 300,000 transactions per second. The network includes fully on-chain order book, matching, liquidation, and oracle primitives, with Ethereum-compatible interfaces for developers. Pod serves developers building markets and traders using spot, perpetual, options, prediction, and other on-chain markets.
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About the Role
This hands-on QA role tests new pod features and releases across local and staging environments, including transactions, API responses, receipts, state changes, CLI and client flows. The role also develops automated end-to-end and headless browser tests and builds practical release checklists.
Requirements
- Experience in QA, software testing, release testing, or a similar role.
- Strong manual testing skills, including creating test cases, reproducing bugs, and documenting issues.
- Experience testing APIs, CLIs, backend services, infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
- Comfort using command-line tools, reading logs, running scripts, and working in local or staging environments.
- Some experience with automated testing, scripting, smoke tests, regression tests, or end-to-end tests.
- Strong ownership of release quality and persistence in understanding behavior.
- Nice to have experience with blockchain systems, exchanges, trading systems, fintech products, databases, Docker, CI, Kubernetes, cloud environments, or API testing tools.
- Experience writing scripts or tests in Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Bash is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Manually test new pod features and releases before shipment.
- Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected and actual behavior, logs, and screenshots.
- Communicate with engineers to help bugs get fixed, verified, and shipped to production.
- Write automated tests for repeated checks, including end-to-end scripts and headless browser tests.
- Automate repeated end-to-end checks that should run before every release.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation plus meaningful token/equity upside.
- Real ownership of QA and release quality from day one.
- High-impact role in a small, ambitious engineering team.
- Opportunity to work on technically challenging distributed systems and market infrastructure.
- Occasional travel for team offsites and crypto industry events.