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You will be joining a remote-first team of backend engineers working primarily with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. You will be involved in developing, maintaining and improving the tools, processes and overall infrastructure supporting our software development life cycle. This is a highly demanding role at a very fast-growing startup, working in a team of highly-accomplished, yet humble team who deeply care about the mission of the company. If you ever wanted to work on a rocket ship, this is as close as it gets.
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to help us ensure the high quality of our professional network, Contra. You will be joining our Lead QA Engineer as our second dedicated QA hire. Your role will be to establish the best practices for the company and implement it. To help you succeed, we have documented our current QA processes and how we see QA helping the organization.
You’ll be successful here if you
- You have experience defining QA processes.
- You have experience troubleshooting issues along with the engineering team.
- You know how to write and debug integration tests using Cypress
- You have have strong organizational and analytical skills, are highly self-driven, reliable
- You have strong technical aptitude and keen to learn and improve
- Bonus:You have an experience working in a startup
- Bonus: You have an experience with doing Accessibility Audits
- Bonus: You have an experience with Performance and load testing
How you’ll add value at Contra
- Establish the QA processes.
- Ensure quality in the delivered features across all supported platforms (functional testing, integration testing, testing API & client).
- Validate and document bug reports.
- Test usability of the new features and suggest UI / UX improvements.
How Contra can add value for you
- Remote-first culture
- Health coverage
- Well-funded company built to scale
- Competitive salary + equity
- Generous vacation policy + paid holidays off
- Flexible parental leave
- No Meeting Wednesdays
- Half day every third Friday of the month (throughout Covid)
- A custom Slack emoji, just for you
Brief
You will be joining a remote-first team of backend engineers working primarily with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. You will be designing database schema and building GraphQL API for a rapidly growing professional network.
This is a highly demanding role at a very fast-growing startup, working in a team of highly-accomplished, yet humble team who deeply care about the mission of the company. If you ever wanted to work on a rocketship, this is as close as it gets.
You will be joining a team of 2 other backend engineers, working primarily with Node.js, GraphQL and PostgreSQL. However, we need help with DevOps, and while it is too early to hire a dedicated resource, we figured this is an opportunity to hire someone who is primarily a Node.js developer but who has deep interest in DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, setting up CI/CD, GKE, etc. If this you, this is a great opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds advancing what's possible with GraphQL and leveling up your DevOps skills.
How you’ll add value at Contra:
- Develop enterprise-scale backend services using cutting edge technologies
- Write professional-quality, clean and testable TypeScript code
- Transform business requirements into relational database structures and GraphQL schemas
- Craft readable, performant and scalable SQL queries
- Collaborate with the rest of the team through planning, code reviews and regular communication
You’ll be successful here if you:
- Carefully plan your work and build for the future
- Deliver transparent, honest, and direct feedback to your peers on an early-stage product
- Enjoy participating in all parts of the product process, not just coding
- Thrive in a remote-first environment
- Are fluent in verbal and written English
Job Benefits:
- Remote-first culture
- Healthcare for employees
- Competitive salary + equity
- Generous vacation + paid holidays off
- Flexible parental leave
- Flexibility to choose employee or contractor status
- No meeting Wednesdays
- Half day every third Friday of the month (throughout Covid)
- A custom slack emoji, just for you
- Contribute to a rapidly growing React application
- Build and refine our internal design system
- Ensure application safety and stability with Typescript and Jest
- Use Relay with React Suspense to build cutting edge, API-driven experiences
- Carefully plan your work and build for the future
- Deliver transparent, honest, and direct feedback to your peers on an early-stage product
- Enjoy participating in all parts of the product process, not just coding
- Thrive in a remote-first environment
Job Benefits:
- Remote-first culture
- Healthcare for employees
- Competitive salary + equity
- Generous vacation + paid holidays off
- Flexible parental leave
- Flexibility to choose employee or contractor status
- No meeting Wednesdays
- Half day every third Friday of the month (throughout Covid)
- A custom slack emoji, just for you
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