Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, SDET, or platform engineering roles, with significant time spent building developer-facing tools and infrastructure at scale.
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tools, or shared infrastructure — you understand what makes engineers actually adopt tooling. You've driven adoption and engagement across multiple teams, not just built features nobody used. This is core to the role.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — you write production-quality code. This role is more engineering than testing.
- Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipeline design, and quality tooling — you've built these systems, not just used them.
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure — Kubernetes, containerised test environments, infrastructure-as-code. You're comfortable with the full stack.
- Product thinking for internal tools — you think about your users (engineers), their workflows, and their pain points. You measure success by adoption and impact, not features shipped.
- Technical leadership experience — you've led engineering initiatives, defined roadmaps, made architectural decisions, and influenced practices across multiple teams.
- Strong communication skills — you can articulate technical vision to engineers and business value to leadership.
- Experience in e-commerce, fintech, or high-transaction-volume environments where quality has direct business impact.
- Experience working across a full engineering organisation — not just one team, but shaping practices and tooling that affect 10+ teams simultaneously. You think like a platform engineer — your users are developers, and your product is the tooling they rely on every day. You're obsessed with developer experience — quality tools should reduce friction, not add it. If it's not easy, it won't be adopted. You believe quality is a system, not a phase — and you want to build that system. You're excited about AI as a force multiplier for quality, not threatened by it. You default to automation over manual process — if a human has to do it twice, it should be automated. You're comfortable with ambiguity and greenfield work — you're building something new, not maintaining something old. You prioritise ruthlessly — you'd rather ship one high-impact tool that every team uses than five tools nobody adopts.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI/LLM-powered testing or developer tools — agentic testing, AI-assisted test generation, or building tooling that integrates LLMs into development workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Stock options in a high-growth startup.
- Competitive PTO with public holidays additional.
- Private Health.
- Pension.
- Wellness benefits.
- Breakfast Mondays.
Additional Information
- We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of equality isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing.
