Senior / Staff QA Engineer

Radar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

401(k) plan with 4% match

Catered lunches

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

A tech-focused company in New York seeks a QA Engineer to develop QA infrastructure across mobile SDKs, desktop apps, server APIs, and web. The ideal candidate has significant experience in building QA systems at scale and is passionate about ensuring customer satisfaction through quality assurance. The role involves utilizing a diverse stack including Kotlin, React, and AWS, and offers a competitive salary between $125,000 - $175,000 along with stock options and excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience building QA infrastructure at scale across mobile, backend, desktop and frontend.
• Interest in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful.

Responsibilities

• Work on core Radar QA infrastructure for mobile SDKs, desktop apps, server APIs and frontend web experiences.
• Improve existing automated test suites to enable others to more easily write robust tests.
• Leverage SaaS QA products where useful.
• Use AI to increase automation and end-to-end QA as part of our SDLC.
• Work across full-stack features across mobile, desktop, server, and frontend.
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, and incorporate it into your work.

Skills

Building QA infrastructure

Experience with mobile, backend, desktop, and frontend

Customer interaction

Tools

Kotlin

React

Node.js

AWS

Rust

Terraform

Job description

About the role

We're looking for QA Engineers to build QA infrastructure. This infrastructure will cover our backend, frontend, desktop apps, mobile SDKs, and data platform. The ideal engineer for this role is someone who is obsessed with never breaking customers but sees automation and AI as a means to an end to achieve that outcome. The perfect candidate will see themselves as a generalist who is ultimately motivated by driving impact to products and customers through QA systems.

The stack

• Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift for mobile.
• Thin cross‑platform SDK wrappers for React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, and others.
• Swift and C# for desktop apps.
• React and Next.js for the frontend.
• Node.js TypeScript for the API layer.
• Rust for the main backend service, HorizonDB.
• AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform for deployment.

How we use AI

• Engineers choose AI tools like Claude and Codex.
• Building Claude skills, e.g., debugging HorizonDB.
• All code changes are reviewed by an engineer and AI tools.
• Engineers use AI daily or weekly.
• We recognize risks and maintain coding standards.

What you’ll do

• Work on core Radar QA infrastructure for mobile SDKs, desktop apps, server APIs and frontend web experiences.
• Improve existing automated test suites to enable others to more easily write robust tests.
• Leverage SaaS QA products where useful.
• Use AI to increase automation and end‑to‑end QA as part of our SDLC.
• Work across full‑stack features across mobile, desktop, server, and frontend.
• Have your work run on 300M+ devices.
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work, and make them successful.

You should

• Have experience building QA infrastructure at scale across mobile, backend, desktop and frontend.
• Be interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful.

Bonus points if you

• Are a former technical co‑founder.

You’ll work with

• Nick Patrick, Co‑Founder and CEO.
• Tim Julien, CTO.
• Our customers and prospects.
• Our Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams.

What we offer

• Competitive salary.
• Meaningful stock options in a fast‑growing company.
• 401(k) plan with 4% match.
• New HQ in Flatiron, NYC.
• Top‑notch equipment.
• Catered lunches.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Commuter and fitness benefits.

Compensation

For candidates based in the United States, the base salary range for this full‑time position is between $125,000 - $175,000/year with an opportunity for performance bonuses and incentives.

In addition to cash compensation, Radar offers full‑time employees stock option grants under its equity plan.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Your exact offer may vary based on market location, job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.