Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. Sora Union changes that.
Sora Union is a globally distributed professional services company that specializes in Design, Software Engineering. Our experienced talent comes from communities where there is displacement or risk of displacement due to conflict or climate change. We provide services to global companies and start-ups across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, and education.
We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our growing team
You'll be responsible for:
- Contributing to both quality assurance and product engineering across frontend and backend systems.
- Building, maintaining, and improving features while bringing a strong testing mindset to development.
- Identifying edge cases, failure states, data and permission issues, regressions, and potential user impact early.
- Developing and maintaining automated tests and improving overall test coverage and release confidence.
- Work with engineering and compliance teams to support regulatory requirements and develop appropriate software testing strategies.
- Investigate bugs and regressions and help identify underlying implementation, data, requirements, or process issues.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, test tooling, environments, fixtures, mocks, and development processes.
- Participate in planning, technical decisions, code reviews, implementation, and releases.
- Balance automation, exploratory testing, and pragmatic risk-based approaches to quality.
Ideally, you'll have:
- Strong TypeScript and React experience, including modern frontend architecture, state management, routing, accessibility, and responsive UI.
- Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend experience, including REST APIs, validation, error handling, and service design.
- Hands-on experience with AWS serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SSM, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with serverless infrastructure and IaC tools such as Serverless Framework or CloudFormation.
- Strong knowledge of testing practices and tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, Storybook, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, environment-based deployments, and secure configuration/secrets management.
- Experience building AI/LLM-powered product features.
- Familiarity with Auth0/OIDC, analytics, and monitoring tools.
- Experience developing healthcare or wellbeing applications with strong privacy requirements.
- Experience working in regulated environments, particularly Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
Sora Union is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.
Skills Required
- Strong TypeScript and React experience
- Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend experience and REST API design
- Hands-on experience with AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SSM, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Experience with serverless infrastructure and IaC (Serverless Framework or CloudFormation)
- Strong knowledge of testing practices and tools (Jest, React Testing Library, Storybook, Playwright, Cypress)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, environment-based deployments, and secure configuration/secrets management
- Experience building AI/LLM-powered product features
- Familiarity with Auth0/OIDC, analytics, and monitoring tools
- Experience developing healthcare or wellbeing applications with strong privacy requirements
- Experience working in regulated environments, particularly Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
What We Do
Resilient people do amazing work. Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. We are a globally distributed professional services company, that provides access to the world's untapped talent, and lets you take your career with you, undisturbed, if you have to or choose to move. Our mission is to bring the superpowers of distributed work to people who have been displaced or are at risk of displacement in order to mitigate the economic disruption from conflicts and climate change.
