Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Framework Ventures

United States

Remote

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Health Benefits

New Hire Home‑Office Setup: One‑time USD $500

Monthly Stipend: USD $150

Job summary

Framework Ventures is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to enhance its API's reliability and developer experience. You will work on developing comprehensive testing strategies, mentoring product engineers, and designing load tests to handle user demands. Successful candidates will have over 5 years of experience, familiarity with CI pipelines, and must know Go along with Kubernetes. This role offers competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and a comprehensive home-office setup.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test or Senior Quality Assurance Engineer.
Experience with strongly typed programming languages and at least 1 year with Go.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, including writing Helm charts.

Responsibilities

Develop a comprehensive testing strategy for API surface.
Mentor and guide product engineers for quality improvement.
Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests.

Skills

Software Development Engineer in Test

CI pipelines

Kubernetes

Automated test frameworks

Microservices

Tools

GitHub Actions

Google Cloud Build

Docker

Job description

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker‑dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional‑grade APIs. This includes broker‑dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open‑source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award‑winning, developer‑friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by top‑tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Things You Get To Do

Develop a comprehensive testing strategy for our API surface
Improve developer experience by standardizing tooling and infrastructure
Coordinate with other teams to improve test coverage, reliability and speed
Mentor and guide product engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the team.
Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure our platform can handle growing user demands.

Who You Are (must-haves)

You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. You have written code in strongly typed languages before and have at least 1 year of experience with Go. You have built and maintained CI pipelines before— we use a mix of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build pipelines. You have worked with microservices before and understand the challenges they pose for building reliable integrations and end‑to‑end tests. You have experience designing and building automated test frameworks. You are familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics—you can write a Helm chart for a new service with relative ease, you understand best practices around security, and you have prior job experience or certifications to prove this. You have worked at a startup before—you understand that things don’t always go according to plan, that there is significant technical debt, that some tasks just need to be done, and that sometimes there are no processes or documentation to guide your hand. You are not afraid of taking a task from start to finish— gathering requirements, figuring out and implementing the best technical solution, then deploying and monitoring the results.

Who You Might Be (nice-to-haves)

You have written code in Python or TypeScript. You have experience writing efficient Dockerfiles and building secure container images. You have implemented load tests with k6 (REST) and ghz (gRPC) and have experience analyzing pprof/trace output. You have done IaC deployments with Argo CD or Terraform, or have used Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine before. You are familiar with Tilt and have written a Kubernetes Operator before. You are familiar with testing event‑driven systems using Kafka (or even better, Redpanda).

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