[Hiring] Senior Manager, Quality Engineering @Sardine

Role Description

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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.