Carbon60
SDET Architect
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoReactNext.jsVue.jsSvelteNode.js.NETDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewGitSQLNoSQLAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsGraphQLREST
About the role
- You'll apply agentic development and AI-assisted workflows, using behavior-oriented prompts and specifications to guide AI agents to generate both implementation and verification.
- A core component of this role involves working directly with customers to modernize their technology estates and raise their quality bar, with the goal of supporting business growth.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of solutions - from scoping through implementation, verification, and deployment - building trust as a reliable partner for both features and quality.
- Create structured, behavior-oriented prompts and specifications that guide AI agents to generate implementation code and the tests that verify it.
- Feature Development: Build production-grade features alongside your quality work.
- Design for Quality: Build with testability, resilience, and observability in mind from the outset. Participate in implementation reviews to ensure alignment with patterns, performance, and security expectations.
- Support customer engineers in adopting agentic development, AI-assisted workflows, shift-left testing, and modern architectural practices so solutions remain sustainable long-term.
- By sharing and embracing unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, we learn from each other, innovate, and create a dynamic environment where we can be and achieve our best.
- Carbon60 is committed to an equitable employee experience, opportunity, and support.
- If you require accommodations or support during the recruitment process, please email us at careers@opsguru.io
Requirements
- 5-7 Years of Experience: Proven experience as a Senior SDET, Test Architect, Test Engineer, or Software Engineer delivering distributed systems with a strong quality focus.
- Frontend: Proficiency with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte) and their testing ecosystems.
- Polyglot Proficiency: Proficiency in at least two distinct programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Python, Go,.NET, Java).
- CI/CD & Quality Gates: Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar), quality gates, and test orchestration in automated delivery flows.
- Business-Aligned Engineering: Ability to align quality strategy and feature development with customer business goals.
- Rapid Skill Acquisition: Ability to acquire proficiency in unknown codebases or new languages.
- Proven experience as a Senior SDET, Test Architect, Test Engineer, or Software Engineer delivering distributed systems with a strong quality focus.
- Proficiency with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte) and their testing ecosystems.
- Proficiency in at least two distinct programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Python, Go,.NET, Java).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar), quality gates, and test orchestration in automated delivery flows.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, SDET, Test Architect, Test Engineer, or consulting/professional services role.
- Experience with non-functional testing: security, accessibility, and performance profiling.
- Experience transforming brownfield applications into modern, testable architectures.
- Experience migrating and modernizing applications from on-premise to the Cloud.
- What's in it for you:
- Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts
- Access to latest tech
Skills
- Help establish quality gates, test orchestration, and coverage standards that scale across polyglot codebases and customer teams.
- Integrate AI tools like Claude Code, Kiro and Cursor into development and testing workflows.
- Evolve your engineering practice from manual coding and test-writing to auditing, validating, and refining AI-generated solutions.
- Apply the judgment to catch coverage theater - AI-generated tests that pass but prove nothing.
- Follow repeatable AI-driven development patterns.
- Strong experience designing test frameworks and automation across the stack - unit, integration, contract, E2E, performance, and load.
- Hands-on with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest/Vitest, pytest, JUnit, and k6.
- AWS or Azure.
Compensation
- Competitive Salary Package (160K CAD/ year - 180K CAD / year)
Benefits
- Compensation & Perks
- Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)
- Paid parental leave options
- Flexibility & Time Off
- Health & Wellness
- Employer-paid health & dental premiums
- GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health
- $500 in Health Care Spending Account annually
Company info
- Role Overview
- This position is for a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test who embeds directly with customers as a hands-on quality partner while also building production features.
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