Senior Quality Engineer

Caribou Financial•Chicago, AZ

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Caribou, we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on what’s most important to them. Today, less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses, as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions, and ushering them through the process quickly. On average, our drivers save $159/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term. Caribou is led by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries. We’re proud to be backed by a great team of investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others. Do you thrive on building testing platforms that make great tests inevitable? Do you believe that when engineers take the lead on testing their own work, the end result is a superior product? This may be the Quality Engineering role for you. You'll join a team of 3 QE engineers using Playwright, Claude Code, and Harness to build the frameworks, tooling, and standards that make robust automated testing the path of least resistance. You'll choose testing stacks (RSpec over Minitest), write enablement tools, and coach teams on testable code. Our goal: help Caribou reach DORA Elite performance by empowering engineers, not blocking or testing for them.

Requirements

Experience with: Ruby on Rails applications
Building or evolving test automation frameworks (RSpec, Capybara, Playwright, or similar)
Production systems and collaborative debugging
Translating quality metrics into actionable improvements (DORA metrics experience a plus)
Mentoring or coaching teams to strengthen engineering practices
Ruby on Rails experience is required —most of our platform is Rails.

Nice To Haves

GCP, Docker, or containerized environments
CI/CD pipeline optimization
Interest in using AI to boost testing productivity

Responsibilities

Guide framework decisions : Choose and standardize testing tools (RSpec over Minitest, Jest over Mocha) and lead architectural adoption across the platform
Build enablement infrastructure : Design factory patterns, data seeds, and service stubs enabling sophisticated testing in inner development loops without full integration
Define quality standards together : Establish coverage thresholds, test suite structures for product types, and boundary metrics giving teams clear targets
Optimize delivery pipelines : Integrate quality gates into CI/CD, balance performance and reliability, and analyze data to eliminate shipping bottlenecks
Mentor and share best practices : Collaborate with teams on avoiding flaky tests, designing testable code, and building robust automated coverage
Enable data-informed improvements : Analyze quality metrics (flaky tests, incidents, DORA) to identify systemic issues and facilitate process improvements

Benefits

Competitive compensation: $147k - $183k
Eligible for annual performance-based Incentive
Equity options
401(k) retirement plan
Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents
Exceptional benefits including highly subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, and fully company-paid mental health, disability, and basic life insurance
Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs (with Caribou HSA contributions), FSAs, supplemental life and health, legal, and pet insurance
Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses
Employee referral program

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