QA Engineer
Pod is a novel stake-based programmable layer one blockchain designed to bring optimal latency to decentralized systems. By using a simple design without blocks or chains, it aims to enable developers to build fast and user-friendly Web3 products. They have raised a $10M seed round from investors including a16z crypto.
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About Pod Network
Pod Network is addressing the slow, expensive, and unreliable nature of current blockchain infrastructure that hinders the development of user-friendly applications. Their solution is a novel stake-based programmable layer one built with a simple design: transactions are streamed to validators for attestation and timestamping, eliminating blocks, chains, and complex consensus protocols. This architecture aims for optimal latency (~200ms) and high throughput. Pod is also developing EVMx, a backward-compatible extension of the EVM, to support the Ethereum developer community and their Solidity toolchains. The company follows a philosophy of UX-driven infrastructure, creating products tightly integrated with their own technology to provide value without users needing to understand the underlying decentralized network. They are interested in applications like global payments, decentralized social networks, e-voting, on-chain games, and real-time marketplaces.
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About the Role
You will manually test new pod features and releases before they ship. You will write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected behavior, actual behavior, logs, screenshots, or other useful context. You will communicate with the right person on the team to help bugs get fixed, verified, and shipped to production. You will write automated tests for repeated checks, including end-to-end scripts and headless browser tests. Over time you will automate the repeated end-to-end checks that should run before every release.
Requirements
- Experience in QA, software testing, release testing, or a similar role.
- Strong manual testing skills, with the ability to create practical test cases, reproduce bugs, and document issues clearly.
- Comfortable testing technical software such as APIs, CLIs, backend services, infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
- Comfortable 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: you keep testing until the behavior is actually understood.
Responsibilities
- Manually test new pod features and releases before they ship.
- Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected behavior, actual behavior, logs, screenshots, or other useful context.
- Communicate with the right person on the team 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.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation plus meaningful token/equity upside.
- Real ownership of QA and release quality from day one.
- A high-impact role in a small, ambitious engineering team.
- The chance to work on technically challenging distributed systems and market infrastructure.
- Occasional travel for team offsites and crypto industry events.