PactFi
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
New York, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaDistributed SystemsGitSQLAWSGCPCloud PlatformsCI/CDGitHub ActionsCircleCIDevOpsdbtLLMsComplianceFinancial AnalysisPlaywrightLoad TestingTest AutomationManual TestingLeadershipFinancial Reporting
About the role
- About PactFi Private asset markets (PE, Private Credit, VC, Real Estate) have 10x to 9.8T in AUM over the past decade and are projected to grow to $17T in the next five years.
- However, digital infrastructure has not kept pace, with most of the market operating predominantly in error-prone, internal-only software solutions.
- PactFi provides secure, end-to-end, operational infrastructure for managing complex private credit transactions.
Responsibilities
- Our web-based application brings together all parties involved in such a transaction to more efficiently allocate capital, complete KYC, share documents, manage funds flow, and more.
- Define testing architecture, improve release confidence, and partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to ensure platform reliability in a high-stakes financial
Requirements
- 5+ years in QA automation, SDET, or software engineering roles
- Deep expertise with Playwright (2+ years required) in production environments
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript
- Experience designing scalable test frameworks from scratch
- Experience testing API-driven architecture and distributed systems
- Domain Expertise
- Previous experience in fintech, capital markets, or lending platforms.
- Familiarity with:
- Strong understanding of financial systems-particularly within private credit, lending, or capital markets workflows
Nice to have
- Experience with data validation pipelines (SQL, dbt, etc.)
- Exposure to backend languages (Python, Java, or Go)
- Experience with performance or load testing tools
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
- What Success Looks Like
- High-confidence releases with minimal regression risk
- Clear alignment between product logic and automated validation
- Scalable testing culture embedded across engineering
Compensation
- Competitive compensation + equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity.
- Healthcare coverage.
- Stable, fast CI pipelines with meaningful test coverage
- Build foundational infrastructure in a fast-growing private credit fintech
- Competitive compensation + equity
Company info
- The platform is secured to a bank-grade standard, and we have received our SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.
- PactFi was developed in close partnership with two of the industry's largest players, both of whom represent the top 3 players in the private credit space by both size (AUM) and deal activity.
- We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help scale end-to-end test automation for a modern fintech platform.
This listing is sourced directly from PactFi's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.