Senior Software Quality Engineer (SDET)

Mountain View, US

About EarnIn

As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.

We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

POSITION SUMMARY
 
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Quality Engineer (SDET) to lead our end-to-end quality engineering initiatives across mobile, web, backend, and data platforms. This role combines deep technical expertise with a forward-thinking, AI-first mindset, driving innovation, scalability, and reliability through advanced automation and intelligent testing strategies. As a senior member of the team, you will champion modern, AI-enhanced quality practices and help build a culture where continuous improvement, automation-first thinking, and data-driven decisions are embedded at every stage of product development.
 
This is a hybrid position in Mountain View (Headquarters) and will require in-office work 2 days a week. The base salary range for this full-time position is $210,000 to $257,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. EarnIn provides excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, and a learning and development stipend. 

Quality Engineering & Test

Own end-to-end quality across iOS and Android applications and their supporting backend services, ensuring high confidence in weekly (or faster) releases.

Design and implement comprehensive test strategies covering:

  • Native mobile applications (iOS & Android)
  • Mobile-to-backend integrations (REST APIs, auth flows, event-driven systems)
  • Microservices and distributed systems
  • Critical web workflows that intersect with mobile journeys
  • Device, OS, browser, and network variability
  • App lifecycle events, offline behavior, retries, and edge cases

Ensure critical user journeys are validated across mobile UI → API → backend → web touchpoints, preventing production escapes in high-impact flows.

Partner with engineering teams to embed quality gates into the mobile release lifecycle, including pre-merge validation, release candidate verification, and post-deploy smoke testing.

Drive improvements in testability by introducing better logging, API contracts, observability hooks, feature flags, and deterministic state management.

Establish meaningful quality metrics (crash analytics, defect trends, flaky tests, API reliability, release risk scoring) and surface actionable insights to engineering stakeholders.

Champion shift-left quality by influencing design reviews, API schema discussions, and acceptance criteria early in development.

AI-Driven Quality and Automation

Leverage AI to enhance mobile, backend, and web testing effectiveness, including:

  • AI-assisted test case and test data generation
  • Intelligent regression suite prioritization based on code changes
  • Predictive defect detection and risk-based testing
  • Flaky test detection and automated stabilization insights

Integrate AI-powered log intelligence, crash clustering, and anomaly detection into quality workflows.

Continuously evaluate and experiment with AI-driven QA tools to increase coverage, reduce maintenance overhead, and accelerate release cycles.

Contribute to building an AI-augmented quality ecosystem that improves speed without compromising reliability.

Automation Excellence

Design, build, and scale robust automation frameworks using:

  • XCUITest, Espresso, Appium (mobile automation)
  • Playwright (web and mobile web validation)
  • REST Assured or similar tools for API and service validation

Ensure frameworks are modular, maintainable, and optimized for scale across multiple teams.

Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.) to enable:

  • Pre-merge quality gates
  • Parallelized execution
  • Environment-aware test runs
  • Post-deployment smoke and regression coverage

Build developer-friendly tooling that enables:

  • Self-service test execution
  • Real-time reporting and dashboards
  • Faster debugging and failure triage
  • Scalable test data and environment management

Continuously reduce flakiness, improve signal quality, and optimize execution time across mobile and backend suites.

Performance, Scalability & Reliability

Design and execute performance validation across:

  • Mobile app startup time and responsiveness
  • API latency, throughput, and reliability
  • Backend load and stress conditions
  • Web performance for critical flows

Partner with engineering teams to analyze production logs, crash reports, browser telemetry, and service metrics.

Lead root-cause analysis of complex cross-layer defects spanning mobile UI, APIs, backend services, and web surfaces.

Ensure reliability validation is embedded directly into release workflows.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Leadership

Collaborate closely with mobile engineers, backend developers, web engineers, product managers, DevOps teams, and release managers to define clear, testable requirements and release criteria.

Actively participate in sprint grooming, planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Influence best practices around mobile-first design, API contracts, and release readiness.

Support mobile app release activities, including release candidate validation, go/no-go recommendations, and post-release monitoring.

Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar in automation and cross-platform validation.

Work effectively with globally distributed teams to coordinate testing across time zones.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • 4+ years of experience in web and mobile testing, with a strong emphasis on test automation.
  • Proven expertise in designing and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with mobile testing frameworks such as XCUITest (iOS) and Espresso (Android), and web frameworks like Playwright.
  • Strong understanding of testing across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Ability to analyze and debug complex test failures, automation issues, and defects efficiently.
  • Familiarity with generative AI applications in quality engineering (test case generation, API contract validation, log intelligence, etc.).
  • Passion for leveraging AI to reduce manual effort, increase coverage, and accelerate release cycles.
  • Proven experience supporting weekly release cycles with a mix of manual and automated regression testing.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
  • Experience using or implementing AI/ML-powered testing tools is a significant plus
  • Experience collaborating with global teams across multiple time zones.
  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience supporting mobile app store release processes (App Store / Play Store), release candidate validation, phased rollouts, and post-release monitoring.
  • Familiarity with crash reporting tools, release health dashboards, and rollback strategies.
#LI-Hybrid

At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant. 

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