Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure and Tools
The Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure & Tools, who can work in a highly collaborative environment, build and maintain centralized testing frameworks so teams can self-service these tools for their needs, and be an advocate for testing best practices across all of engineering.
Quality is a collective responsibility in the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) culture at Lattice. We're at a stage where you will have a voice and make an impact.
Who you are
You are passionate about building comprehensive testing frameworks and automated tools that facilitate the entire development and release lifecycle.
- You've been at it for 7+ years and enjoy sharing your knowledge about best practices and test automation with your fellow teammates.
- You have experience working with test automation frameworks, are comfortable authoring software tools and automation scripts with a modern programming language like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or others, and are proficient in at least one.
- You have experience with test automation frameworks such as Cypress, WebdriverIO, Enzyme, Pact, Supertest, Jest, and Mocha.
- The work you do often multiplies the impact of the work done by your teammates.
- You have a quality first mindset and help build a strong culture of testing and continuous improvement.
- You have experience collaborating with other engineering teams and cross-functional team members.
- You have researched, proposed, and implemented organization-wide high-impact technology or processes.
- You make the engineering team more effective through the pragmatic application of useful test tools and patterns.
- Preferably, you have professional experience with the technologies we work with (TypeScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Amazon Web Services).
You’re a great communicator and collaborator.
- You are a team player and get motivated by helping other engineers succeed. When things break, you are eager and able to help fix things. You like thinking of ways to improve efficiency or bring delight to the people you work with.
- You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
- You value an inclusive culture and have a passion for sharing knowledge with your peers.
You enjoy taking an active role in the development process.
- You love mentoring and supporting other software engineers who are newer to the industry.
- You take care to write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain.
- You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects, including those that span multiple teams or services.
- You act like an owner and strive to do work that you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions.
- You are known for influencing and improving the quality of software that distributed development teams deliver.
Your responsibilities
- Define and build test automation tools & frameworks used across various teams in engineering.
- Work with other engineers and partner closely with the Developer Platform team to develop and own test tooling across a modern tech stack. Our current product stack includes React, Relay Modern, GraphQL, Node, and PostgreSQL. We rely on AWS to host our infrastructure (Amazon EKS) and CircleCI for CI/CD.
- Build and maintain centralized testing frameworks so teams can self-service these tools for their needs; influence and enable testing best practices across teams.
- Lead technical strategy and architect solutions for broad or complex testing requirements.
- Collaborate with our engineering, product, and design teams to understand quality-related challenges and opportunities.
- Contribute to our engineering practices, identifying and evangelizing improvements to improve our team output.
- Engage with Lattice’s broader engineering organization to build relationships, identify potential areas of improvement and help drive the adoption of our automation tools offerings.
- Shape the role of the Quality Engineering team at Lattice through setting an example of excellence and influencing how we build out the team to scale.
Lattice is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive 💪. In an age where employees have more choice than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning – and Lattice is building the tools to empower those people-centric companies. Lattice is a people management platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line 📈. Since launching in 2016 we have grown to over 3,500+ customers globally, including brands like Slack, Pinterest, Reddit, and Asana.
What else does Lattice have to offer? We’re so glad you asked! We invest in our people’s personal and professional growth because that sort of growth begets business impact and personal fulfillment 🤗. We believe in the value of continued learning investments 🤓and reimbursements. We offer a competitive salary (including equity💸) and our benefits are thoughtful. We believe that taking the time for you is important and have a flexible vacation/time-off policy to prove it. We even incorporated Lattice “Recharge Days” 🔋 to ensure you’re getting a break every month. Lattice has also implemented a 💻 remote-first hybrid model (team-dependent, you work from wherever makes you most comfortable). If that gets you excited, now is the perfect time to join; so bring your appetite for ownership and creation and help Lattice continue to grow! 🎉
Lattice is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Lattice is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
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