Senior QA Platform Engineer — AI & Enablement

Impact; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Mental health benefit (therapy/coching

RSU plan

Coursera access

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Job summary

impact.com is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the QA Platform to own the technical direction of the QA stack, including CLIs, MCPs, and full-stack web apps used by hundreds of users. You’ll lead by doing, write code hands-on, and shape standards across QA Enablement and the QA chapter as a technical leader without direct reports.

You’ll work with Java and Python services on GCP and Kubernetes, using TypeScript and Playwright for test and UI work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams.
• Built platforms, frameworks or developer tools adopted by engineers.
• Deep backend and infrastructure engineering: distributed, highly available systems.
• Expert in at least one backend language and able to work across others.
• Experience with LLM- or agent-based tools and AI coding tools.
• Experience in test infrastructure, CI/CD at scale, with an emphasis on fast, trusted tests.
• Strong technical writing: design docs and decisions that others act on.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-quarter technical vision, architecture and roadmap for the QA platform.
• Write code and prototype the hardest parts, ensuring reliability, security and cost in production.
• Define quality engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Engineering Enablement PM.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Playwright

TypeScript

Java

Python

CI/CD tooling

Job description

impact.com is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the QA Platform to own the technical direction of the QA stack, including CLIs, MCPs, and full-stack web apps used by hundreds of users. You’ll lead by doing, write code hands-on, and shape standards across QA Enablement and the QA chapter as a technical leader without direct reports.

You’ll work with Java and Python services on GCP and Kubernetes, using TypeScript and Playwright for test and UI work.