Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (Staff SDET)

Reposted 3 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in U.S.
Remote
161K-194K
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Real Estate • Software • Financial Services
Flex splits your bills into smaller, stress-free payments throughout the month.
The Role
As a Staff SDET, lead quality strategy, architect automation frameworks, optimize testing methodologies, mentor teams, and enhance software reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the role

As a Staff SDET at Flex, you will operate as a technical leader within the Quality Engineering team, shaping quality strategy, standards, and automation frameworks for major products and platforms. You will collaborate across engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex quality challenges and drive initiatives that raise the bar for software reliability and efficiency across the organization.

What you’ll do
  • Define and lead quality strategy and test automation direction for major products and platforms
  • Architect, implement, and optimize scalable, maintainable automation frameworks across products and services
  • Set best practices for advanced testing methodologies, test data generation, and data-driven testing
  • Drive adoption of new tools and emerging technologies to improve testing effectiveness and coverage
  • Lead and coordinate cross-team quality and automation initiatives with significant business impact
  • Collaborate closely with senior engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders to align quality goals and strategies
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SDETs and engineers across multiple teams
  • Identify and resolve large-scale, complex quality challenges, proactively anticipating risks and ambiguities
  • Establish and enforce quality standards, best practices, and documentation across the organization
  • Analyze and report on quality metrics, test coverage, and areas for continuous improvement
  • Advocate for a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
Key qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering and test automation
  • Expert-level proficiency in multiple programming languages and automation frameworks
  • Advanced experience architecting scalable, maintainable automation solutions across products and platforms
  • Expertise in advanced testing methodologies, test data generation, data-driven testing, and other industry emerging technologies
  • Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems and infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Strong skills in test framework optimization and technical leadership
  • Experience with enterprise-level observability, monitoring, and analytics tools
  • Proficiency in complex data analysis and advanced SQL
  • Excellent communication, influence, and cross-team mentorship abilities
  • Ability to set and enforce quality standards and best practices at scale

The salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
  • For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $179,000-$194,000
  • For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $161,000-$175,000

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Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

  • Competitive pay
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) + company equity
  • Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
  • Parental leave 
  • Flex Cares Program
  • Free Flex subscription

 For full time non-US employees, we offer

  • Competitive Pay
  • Company Equity
  • Unlimited PTO

Top Skills

Automation Frameworks
Ci/Cd Systems
Infrastructure-As-Code Tools
Programming Languages
SQL
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
304 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.

Why Work With Us

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is based out of NYC, but we have employees located globally (US, Canada, Brazil, and Israel). We value the unique and dynamic perspectives our team brings every day.

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