EarnIn
Senior SDET - Tooling Engineer
Mountain View, US · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$257kDetected 91 days ago
iOSAndroidDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentGitCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsDevOpsRESTMachine LearningLLMsPlaywrightAppiumTest AutomationAPI TestingLeadershipCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- 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.
- This is a hybrid position in Mountain View (Headquarters) and will require in-office work 2 days a week.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- Champion shift-left quality by influencing design reviews, API schema discussions, and acceptance criteria early in development.
Requirements
- 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.).
- Proven experience supporting weekly release cycles with a mix of manual and automated regression testing.
- 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.
- Final hiring decisions are made by human interviewers and hiring managers.
- If you have any concerns about the use of AI in our hiring process, please connect with your recruiter.
- With your consent, EarnIn may use AI tools to help transcribe or summarize i nterviews.
- Recordings are treated as confidential candidate data and are accessible only to authorized hiring personnel.
- Declining to be recorded will not negatively affect your candidacy or evaluation.
- Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective.
- EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
Skills
- 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
- 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
- XCUITest, Espresso, Appium (mobile automation)
- Playwright (web and mobile web validation)
Compensation
- The base salary range for this full-time position is $210,000 to $257,000, plus equity and benefits.
Benefits
- The base salary range for this full-time position is $210,000 to $257,000, plus equity and benefits.
- EarnIn provides excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, and a learning and development stipend.
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
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