Staff Quality Engineer

About the role

You will be Kikoff's first quality engineer. Millions of users trust our platform, and quality is essential to that trust. Today we have solid unit test coverage and user feedback loops — but no automation frameworks, no quality metrics, and no systematic approach to quality. You'll change that.

Responsibilities

• Define Quality Strategy
• Assess quality gaps across backend (Ruby on Rails), web (SolidJS), and mobile (Flutter/Dart)
• Establish quality metrics and baselines — defect escape rates, CI feedback loop speed, test reliability, coverage ramp
• Present a quality roadmap to engineering leadership with clear milestones and resource needs
• Build Quality Systems
• Design and implement test automation frameworks across backend, web, and mobile
• Expand automated testing from unit coverage to integration, E2E, contract, and visual regression
• Build quality gates into CI/CD pipelines at diff, merge, and release stages
• Create self-service testing tools that product teams adopt independently
• Partner with platform engineering on ephemeral environments and local execution automation
• Enable Product Teams
• Train engineers on testing frameworks and quality practices
• Create documentation and runbooks that make self-service the default
• Drive adoption through transparency: dashboards, coverage gaps, flaky test tracking, quality trends
• Collaborate with Security on compliance testing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
• Integrate AI into Quality
• Embed quality controls into AI-assisted development workflows
• Build or integrate AI-powered testing tools (test generation, triage, regression detection)

Requirements

• 10+ years in quality engineering, with multiple instances of building QA functions or automation frameworks from scratch
• Strong coding ability — you build tools, frameworks, and infrastructure beyond test scripts
• Experience across multiple surfaces: backend, web, mobile, API
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test integration at various stages
• Track record of measurable quality impact: you can cite specific metrics you moved
• Enablement mindset — you build systems that make other engineers more effective
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to define direction independently

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted testing workflows or eval systems for AI-generated code
• Flutter/Dart mobile testing experience
• Fintech or regulated industry experience
• Infrastructure-as-code familiarity (Pulumi, Terraform)
• Performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter)
• Open source testing framework contributions

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

Pay

Base Range: $200,000 - $240,000 USD