[Hiring] QA Software Engineer @Nest Veterinary

Role Description

As our first dedicated Quality hire, you’ll play an important role in defining how quality works at Nest — building the test infrastructure, AI-assisted workflows, and reliability standards that let us ship fast and with confidence as we scale.

If you love automation-first testing, AI-assisted workflows, and owning quality end-to-end across a full stack, this could be a great fit for you.

What You'll Own

• Build Test Coverage Across the Stack: Architect and build a robust test suite from the ground up for our Flutter applications (web + desktop) and our FastAPI/gRPC backend services. Build contract and integration tests for critical APIs, including payment processing, PIMS integrations, and internal services.
• Pioneer AI-Assisted QA: Use LLMs to generate test cases from PRs, specs, and code diffs, then curate and maintain the output. Use AI for exploratory testing — feeding app state, API responses, and UI structures into models to surface edge cases and inconsistencies humans would miss. Build and maintain prompt libraries and workflows for repeatable AI-assisted QA tasks.
• Own Production Reliability: Own observability from a quality and reliability lens: error budgets, alerting thresholds, anomaly detection, and resilience testing. Instrument visual regression testing for our admin and hospital-facing UIs.
• Build Quality Infrastructure & Process: Develop and maintain test data management strategies and reusable test utilities. Establish defect reporting and triage workflows, and quality metrics/reporting, so the rest of engineering has a clear view of coverage and release readiness.
• Partner Across the Org: Collaborate with developers, product, and customer support to identify quality risks early, with a customer-first mindset toward the end-to-end experience. Work with developers to improve test patterns across the codebase, with a bias toward generated-and-reviewed over hand-written-from-scratch. Continuously evaluate new AI testing tools and integrate them where they create real leverage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a QA, SDET, or test automation role — automation-first, not manual-first
• Active, demonstrated use of AI/LLM tools in your testing and reliability workflow (Claude, Copilot, Codex, or similar) — we will ask you about this in detail
• Strong proficiency in Dart and Flutter testing (unit, widget, golden, and integration tests)
• Experience testing Flutter Web (Playwright or similar) and/or Flutter Desktop applications strongly preferred
• Comfort writing Python tests for FastAPI and gRPC services (pytest experience a big plus)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar)
• Comfort working across the stack — Flutter frontends, Python/gRPC backends, and third-party integrations
• Experience with contract testing or API testing frameworks
• Familiarity with production observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, or similar) and reliability concepts like SLOs and error budgets
• Strong product intuition — able to identify the 10% of paths that carry 90% of the risk
• Self-directed and comfortable building a function from zero, not inheriting one

Benefits

• 5X growth trajectory — your work will directly contribute to how Nest grows and scales
• High-impact role — you’ll have meaningful ownership and the opportunity to make a visible impact across the business
• Mission that matters — help more pets get access to the preventive care they need
• Ground-floor opportunity — help define what great quality and reliability engineering looks like as Nest continues to grow
• Teammates who show up — work alongside a kind, motivated, and collaborative team

Company Description

Our mission is simple: make pet care accessible to every pet parent. We provide fully managed, tech-enabled care plan solutions that help veterinary practices increase compliance, drive revenue, and deliver better preventive care without the administrative burden.

We’re transforming an industry with design-forward products, thoughtful technology, and a team that cares deeply about the work we’re building together.