Senior Software Engineer Quality Engineering SDET
Startale Group is an onchain-finance company building products that bring digital assets, stablecoins, and blockchain applications to users and institutions. Its offerings include Startale App, a digital-asset superapp, and Startale USD (USDSC), a U.S. dollar stablecoin.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
Funding history
About Startale Group
Startale Group develops an onchain-finance ecosystem spanning consumer and institutional use cases. Its Startale App enables users to hold, swap, earn, and spend digital assets, access onchain mini apps, and collect rewards. The company also issues Startale USD (USDSC), a U.S. dollar stablecoin built on M0 and backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries, and provides developer resources for building within its ecosystem. It supports partners building mini apps and works with institutions on tokenized capital-markets and stablecoin initiatives.
Skills
About the Role
You will work as an SDET software engineer on either the fully on-chain Strium exchange or the Startale App. You will define quality and release standards, build scalable end-to-end automation, validate trading and API behavior, modernize testing infrastructure, run performance tests, and establish 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
- Have 5+ years of experience in SDET, quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering
- Have practical experience with Playwright, Cypress, REST, JSON-RPC, or WebSocket testing
- Have experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Have experience with Docker and containerized testing environments
- Have experience testing complex distributed systems, fintech, or financial products
- Work autonomously as the sole QA or SDET for a product or team
- Learn and adopt 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
