Senior Software Engineer Quality Engineering SDET

Skills

About the Role

Work as an SDET software engineer on either the fully on-chain Strium exchange or Startale App, defining quality and release standards, building end-to-end automation, validating trading and API behavior, modernizing testing infrastructure, running performance tests, and creating reproducible test environments and data.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience
• Advanced English proficiency
• Write production-quality software
• Build scalable automated test frameworks and reusable test libraries from scratch
• 5+ years of experience in SDET, quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering
• Practical experience with Playwright, Cypress, REST, JSON-RPC, or WebSocket testing
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Docker and containerized testing environments
• Experience testing complex distributed systems, fintech, or financial products
• Ability to work autonomously as the sole QA or SDET for a product or team
• Ability and motivation to learn unfamiliar domains quickly
• Blockchain experience is not required

Responsibilities

• Define quality standards, release criteria, and quality metrics
• Design, build, and operate scalable end-to-end automated testing frameworks
• Validate execution paths, price impact, fee calculations, and user paths for Strium
• Modernize, optimize, and expand the existing end-to-end testing infrastructure for Startale App
• Test API responses and consistency with frontend behavior
• Conduct API load and stress testing for high-throughput systems
• Design reproducible testing environments and test data
• Define testable acceptance criteria with engineering and product teams
• Build automated tests through CI/CD
• Use AI for test generation, development workflows, and test maintenance

Benefits

• Stock option program
• Hybrid work with conditional full remote work
• Annual company workation
• Flexible discretionary leave policy

Hiring Process

Casual interview, document screening, first interview, second interview, trial assignment, final interview, and offer discussion. The process may include 1–3 interviews, meetings with multiple members, and a final-stage reference check. Selection generally takes 2–5 weeks; interviews are usually online.