Senior Software Engineer, Niantic Labs
Tools and Automation
$162-189k
+ bonus + equity
2 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Augmented reality software development
Job no longer available
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$162-189k
+ bonus + equity
2 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human being in the physical world.
Role
Who you are
- BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields, with a minimum of three years automation development experience
- Proven understanding of QE methodology, tools and prior experience in testing Augmented Reality features
- Showed strength and experience with C#, Java or Python
- Experience with build systems such as GitLab, Gradle and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience building efficient and scalable API/Libraries/Services
- Experience using mobile, web UI, or API test automation frameworks (Appium, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, and other automation tools) to write end to end scenario based automated tests
- Ability to think about long-term impact and identify risks
- Experience working with highly-scalable systems
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- Working experience with Unity
- Experience with end-to-end game development and quality assurance processes
- Experience leading, building, and crafting test strategies for SDK, mobile apps and consumer-facing products
What the job involves
- Niantic's Quality Engineering Team is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to implement test automation and lead testing efforts for Niantic's Augmented Reality (AR) platform
- Responsibilities include executing end-to-end test plans (both automated and manual), ensuring that all objectives are met, and implementing test automation solutions
- You will be responsible for working closely with other Quality Engineering (QE) team members, our QE manager, TPMs, Developers, and our production team to deliver high-quality experiences to our customers and best-in-class technology solutions for our platform test automation
- Design, build, and extend automated tests for the Niantic AR platform
- Leverage automation frameworks to build end to end test automation and other testing tools which enable fast creation of web, mobile application and API level automated tests
- Collaborate with other SDETs, QEs, developers, product managers, and other departments to ensure code and automated systems meet internal standards
- Build and manage testing estimates, schedules, timelines, bug analytics/metrics, mitigation plans, and lead vendor testers
- Drive the development and execution of test specs, test cases, and suites for new features
- Participate in the review of QE and Engineering procedures and provide recommendations for improvement
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to cultivate strong working relationships with project team members, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
- Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday
Our take
Niantic Labs is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, and Pokémon GO, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Parental leave transition assistance by Maven
- Fertility benefits with Carrot
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long-term and short-term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare access by Spring Health and EAP
- Increasing paid time off with tenure
- Five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
- 401(k) match
- Equity options
- Compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Wellness Reimbursement: We build our platform and games to give our players even more reasons to get outside, explore the world, and lead more active lifestyles, so we offer monthly gym, internet, and cell phone reimbursements to help our teams do just that.
- Commuter benefits and subsidization: To allow you to set aside money every month for both parking and transportation
- Donation Matching: Niantic gives enables employee donation matching and volunteer opportunities. Each employees can request a Niantic match of up to $500 per employee, each year.
- Legal Services and Identity Theft: ARAG’s legal services provide protection for many legal matters incurred by you, your spouse, or your children.
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
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