Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

As we grow into banks and expand globally, quality is becoming increasingly important. We're looking for a Senior Manager, Quality Engineering to own quality across our platform and our customer-facing delivery.

You will lead a globally distributed QA team across web, mobile, and manual testing, and set the standards, strategy, and governance that make our quality credible to banks: documented test plans, coverage metrics, release gates, and audit-ready evidence. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Professional Services, and our customers to make sure every product change and every bank integration is correct, well-documented, and formally accepted.

- Own end-to-end QA strategy across the platform and customer-facing delivery, spanning a globally distributed team of QA engineers.

- Establish and maintain quality governance appropriate for regulated financial institutions: test strategy standards, coverage metrics, release criteria, and audit-ready evidence.

- Own incident response for quality-related issues: triage, root cause, future prevention, and clear post-incident communication.

- Partner with engineers to strengthen test automation, CI/release gating, and regression coverage for a real-time, high-throughput platform.

- Partner with Professional Services and Post-Sales team to support UAT, structured acceptance testing, and integration validation for bank and enterprise deployments.

- Play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture, ensuring high quality standards are upheld across the organization.

- 8+ years in software quality, with 2+ years managing QA or Quality Engineering teams.

- Experience owning quality for a regulated domain like banking, payments, or fintech. Familiar with audit, UAT, and documented test governance.

- A strong quality engineering mindset: test automation, CI/CD gating, and coverage measurement, balanced with structured manual and exploratory testing.

- Hands on experience building test automation using Cypress or similar tools

- A track record of building high-performing, distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.

- A metrics-driven approach: comfortable defining and reporting on quality KPIs

- Generous compensation in cash and equity

- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested

- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture

- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break

- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific

- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific

- MacBook Pro delivered to your door

- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.

- Monthly meal stipend

- Monthly social meet-up stipend

- Annual health and wellness stipend

- Annual Learning stipend

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

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Compensation: $165K – $230K • Offers Equity