Circle
Lead QA Engineer
Circle
$150k - $170k
Worldwide (Remote)
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Leadership

Lead QA Engineer

Overview

Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

Job Description

Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand. We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 170 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, and Italy, with more to come!

Responsibilities

  • - Drive Circle''s product quality cycle, ensuring a seamless user experience
  • - Ship often and ship with care
  • - Design, develop, and implement robust test automation frameworks for Android and iOS platforms
  • - Work autonomously on prioritizing and defining our QA roadmap
  • - Improve the quality of our codebase and identify architectural deficiencies in your product area
  • - Engage in considerate, but robust, PR reviews with Circle''s engineers
  • - Lead and mentor the QA team, playing a key role in hiring and managing performance
  • - Collaborate closely with Circle''s product and design leaders to deliver exceptional user experiences
  • - Work closely with our engineers to create a world-class user experience and quality mindset

Required Skills

  • - Strong alignment with our values
  • - You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C1 / ILR Level 5
  • - 8+ years experience working as a QA Engineer on complex mobile and web applications
  • - Strong proficiency in mobile QA test frameworks
  • - Familiarity with both mobile and web test automation is necessary, but a high degree of proficiency in both is not a requirement
  • - Highly proficient with Mobile QA automation testing, but can be less experienced with web
  • - 2+ years experience with managing and mentoring direct reports (engineers/QA)
  • - Ability to coordinate/project-manage work and keep the team organized combined with proactive communication and excellent judgment
  • - Familiar with agile software development principles
  • - Strong judgement and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions
  • - Experience with Elasticsearch / Sidekiq / Kafka / GraphQL (Bonus)
  • - Previous experience working with community platforms (Bonus)
  • - Experience working on CRM/Marketing tools, with email deliverability, or in the creator space (Bonus)
  • - Experience at a fast-growing start-up (Bonus)

Benefits

  • - Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
  • - Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else
  • - Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years
  • - Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world
  • - Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable
  • - Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one
  • - Home office stipend to help you get up and running
  • - Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills
  • - Annual bonus potential for roles that don''t already receive variable income or commission
  • - Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.
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About the company

Circle

Circle is the all-in-one community platform. Bring together engaging discussions, members, live streams, chat, events, and memberships—all in one place, all under your own brand.