Senior Platform Quality Engineer, Earnest
$152-172k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + Restricted Stock Units
Office located in Oakland, CA
Student loan provider
Open for applications
Student loan provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$152-172k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + Restricted Stock Units
Office located in Oakland, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s in CS, Engineering or equivalent experience of 5+ years of quality engineering experience
- Experience with server-side concepts, e.g. microservices, database, caching, performance, monitoring and scalability
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js, Node.js
- Test automation technologies: Mocha, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured, k6, Pact
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools
- Willingness to travel to the Oakland office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies
Desirable
- Performance Testing: Familiarity with performance testing tools to evaluate API and service performance under load
- Security Testing Knowledge: Basic understanding of security testing concepts and tools to advocate for secure development practices
- API Design: Knowledge of API design principles and tools for creating robust and scalable APIs can be advantageous, particularly in architect roles
- Experience working in Fintech, Banking, or related Consumer Financial Services companies
What the job involves
- The Senior Platform Quality Engineer position will report to the Head of Quality Engineering
- Ensure service compatibility and consumer-driven development using your deep understanding of contract testing principles (e.g., Pact, Spring Cloud Contract)
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that effective testing methodologies and automated testing tools are seamlessly integrated into the development process
- Champion test-driven development practices across development teams to prevent and detect errors, and ensure faster feedback
- Tackle intricate technical challenges associated with infrastructure, testing and quality engineering
- Set up and maintain testing infrastructure (e.g., cloud environments, container orchestration) to support scalable test execution
- Proactively work with development teams to identify potential production issues and help devise strategies to mitigate risk
- Design, develop and promote tools and frameworks that enable developers to validate functionality of web applications, services and APIs
- Drive the adoption of efficient quality engineering processes and identify gaps in test tooling
Our take
Earnest offers student loan refinancing and personal loan products. It looks at thousands of data points such as education, saving patterns, investments, and career trajectory to issue a unique credit score, which can prove a lifeline for students who may otherwise struggle to qualify for loan refinancing.
For the portion of student debtors with low credit scores, Earnest is one of a few scant options. Borrowers can choose their own loan terms to fund up to the full cost of their education, and there are no origination, application, or late fees.
Earnest has grown from distributing $8M loans in its first year of business to an impressive total $18.5 billion in student loans refinanced, and has served upwards of 200,000 people. With student loans representing such a huge sector of lending, there should be plenty of room for Earnest to continue expanding in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2017
$20m
SERIES C
Nov 2015
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127m
Company benefits
- Remote-first flexibility
- Monthly & annual remote work stipends
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- $1000 annual travel perk
- Robust 401K package
- No meeting Thursdays
- Annual company-wide offsites
Company values
- Earn Happy Customers - Our customers’ journey is ours to share. Our success comes from anticipating their needs and providing the solutions they’re looking for. This combination of empathy and action helps them become our best endorsers and biggest fans.
- Better is Better - The path to great means getting better every day. We push ourselves, and each other, to remain curious and think differently. We know the value of compounding and how continuous 1% improvement leads to massive changes. We are always willing to challenge the status quo in order to achieve our goals.
- PhD in Moving Fast - Our customers are tired of long wait times and large student loan bills so we constantly seek out ways to deliver faster. We refuse to waste time on things that don’t move the needle and we surprise teammates and customers with our speed.
- Passion for Challenges - Perseverance and optimism are just the start to take on the inertia of a national trillion-dollar problem. We enjoy tough challenges knowing that if we persist through them we will make a difference.
- Impact is a Team Sport - We maximize our impact when we act as one team. We each play our part and put team success above personal achievement. Earnies are willing to do what it takes to make the team better even though it may be uncomfortable for ourselves.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Louis Beryl
(CEO)Co-founded SolidEnergy Systems. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator. Is a Board Member of Car Dash and Roofr, and is a Mentor at First Round Fast Track.
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