[Hiring] Senior Quality Engineer @Circle

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to help shape how quality is built into our product.

• Partner with multiple product teams across different areas of Circle.
• Get involved early in product, design and engineering discussions.
• Identify meaningful product, technical and customer risks.
• Bring a quality perspective to user journeys, UI/UX, requirements and technical approaches.
• Shape pragmatic, risk-based testing approaches based on the change and its potential impact.

• Build and maintain reliable automated coverage across web, APIs and integrations.
• Make thoughtful decisions about what to automate, where to test it and what provides the strongest signal.
• Investigate complex failures across the application, APIs, CI pipelines and supporting systems.
• Work with engineers to improve testability, reliability and developer feedback loops.
• Use modern engineering and AI-assisted tooling where it improves planning, automation, debugging or investigation.

• Identify recurring or systemic quality issues and drive improvements across teams.
• Use bugs, production issues and quality signals to improve prevention, not just detection.
• Help teams make informed decisions about risk, coverage and release confidence.
• Share knowledge and approaches that strengthen quality ownership across Engineering.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent).
• Strong experience working as a Quality Engineer within modern product engineering teams.
• Strong web test automation experience with Playwright, TypeScript, or comparable technologies.
• Good knowledge of API and integration testing.
• Strong exploratory and risk-based testing skills.
• Confidence reading application code and debugging complex technical issues.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Strong product judgement; care about the experience being built, not just whether it technically works.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and product areas, switching context and getting up to speed quickly.
• Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy and identify where your input will create the most value.
• Confident asking questions, challenging assumptions and influencing decisions constructively.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach to balancing quality, risk and delivery.

Requirements

• Experience, interest or strong potential in building quality platforms, test infrastructure, automation frameworks, developer tooling or other reusable quality-enabling systems.
• Mobile testing, particularly React Native, iOS or Android.
• Payments or integration-heavy products.
• Observability and production monitoring.
• Performance and load testing.
• CI/CD and build infrastructure.
• Developer experience or engineering productivity.

Benefits

• U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally.
• Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants.
• 35 days of paid time off each year.
• Remote-only team with company retreats twice a year in incredible destinations.
• Benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth.