Senior Software Quality Engineer, Relay
CA$157.5-192.5k
Online business banking and money management
Be an early applicant
Online business banking and money management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$157.5-192.5k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help small businesses have greater financial clarity to build health, lasting businesses.
Role
Who you are
- You have built quality engineering systems from the ground up, hands on — frameworks, test suites and CI systems, not just tests written against someone else's harness
- You have tested distributed systems, not only UIs. Services, lambdas, microservices, real-time applications — you understand what makes them hard to test and you've done it in CI
- You understand and care deeply about system architecture - you have an in depth understanding of how a distributed system is architected - how systems communicate, how scaleability and resilience is built into a system and how to design tests for these complex systems instead of treating them like a black box
- You can influence and persuade development teams to adopt quality practices. You've changed how a team works, not just what you shipped
- You debug from first principles, using code, logs and traces to get to genuine root cause
- You can gather quality and defect data from multiple sources and present it to a wide audience, including executives, and make the numbers mean something
- You are AI-fluent in practice — using AI tools daily, comfortable with how agents work and with the systems underneath them, and able to critique AI output rather than accept it blindly
- You thrive in agile teams that move quickly and you're comfortable with ambiguity and abstract requirements
- Bonus Points
- Mobile testing experience (Detox)
- Experience with AWS systems
What the job involves
- You'll join Core Banking, the team building the resilient banking infrastructure that Relay's customers and internal teams depend on — ACH and wire transfers, local and international, and everything that keeps money moving securely and predictably.
- Core and Risk Engineering are tied at the hip, and you'll be embedded across both. The team's north star is simple: scalable, reliable, on time, under budget — measured in escaped defects, test flakiness and duration, incident count, and uptime
- Your mission is to scale quality operations and build the tooling, frameworks and CI pipelines for a distributed system that make it easy to scale quality and increase development velocity across every engineering team at Relay
- This is not a role where you write UI tests against someone else's system. You will have the same leverage as a developer
- Own the quality roadmap for Risk Engineering and build the quality engineering frameworks for Core Banking systems, including ACH and domestic and international wire transfers
- Build and improve our CI infrastructure, including the migration to ministack — testing lambdas and microservices in CI with local implementations of Wiremock, Localstack and PSQL. You'll be measured on the same numbers the team is: escaped defects, test flakiness and duration, incident count, uptime
- Drive shift-left across the teams you're embedded in — attending sprint ceremonies and getting developers writing tests as part of their deliverables, not as a handoff to QA
- Find and remove the bottlenecks in quality operations, diagnosing pain points across Core Banking and Risk and championing the solutions
- Build tools that improve developer experience, with minimal dependency on third parties
- Mentor junior quality engineers and contribute to the direction and larger-scale initiatives of the Quality Engineering team
- Tell the quality story with data — gathering defect and quality data from across our systems and presenting it to engineering leadership and executives
- Roughly 75% of your week is hands-on building. The other 25% is influence: ceremonies, mentorship, evangelism, and getting teams to adopt what you've built
Application process
- Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meet video call with a member of our Engineering Team
- Stage 2: A 60-minute Google Meet with the Hiring Manager
- Stage 3: A 90-minute technical interview and case study with members of the hiring team
- Stage 4: A 45-minute Google Meet video call with a member of our leadership team
Our take
Traditional banking options can feel outdated and tedious, especially if this includes in-person visits and waiting in line. This has led to the rise of online banking - but lots of smaller companies have to navigate multiple complicated applications in order to manage this business banking.
This is what Relay aims to fix. It's no-fee, online banking and money management platform looks to tackle financial complexity for SMBs. The company's goal is to fully automate the finance function using banking that deeply integrates into back-office systems. And its software is designed to affordably increase financial clarity and security, reducing the time spent on administrative tasks.
Relay is focused on its long-term goals and plans to scale up distribution and grow in sales, marketing, customer support, operations, engineering and product. The company currently serves thousands of SMBs across the US with the goal to get 100,000 small businesses over the next few years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
58% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2026
$50m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2024
$32.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $101.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary. Since 2023, 66%+ of employees have received salary increases, with multiple new team members joining just last year.
- Social connection: We believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
- Personal and professional growth: Through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success. Even with more than half of our team joining in the last 12 months, almost 20% have received promotions in the last year alone.
- Parental leave with top-up: We offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive
- Comprehensive health benefits: Enjoy full health benefits from day one: no probation period required. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Hybrid work environment: We value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days per week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
- Top-tier equipment: As a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
- Flexible vacation and time off: Every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays.
- Dog-friendly space: Can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
- Award-winning workplace: As a winner of CB Insights' Fintech 100, Deloitte Canada's Technology Fast 50, Forbes Fintech 50, and the CIX Top 10 Growth Award, Relay is a recognized innovative and high-growth company.
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Yoseph West
(Co-Founder & CEO)Yoseph has a range of experience including serving as the CEO at Vuru, Director of Product Engagement at Wave, and Head of Marketing at Hubdoc.
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