QA Engineer

This hands-on QA role tests new pod features and releases across local and staging environments, including transactions, API responses, receipts, state changes, CLI and client flows. The role also develops automated end-to-end and headless browser tests and builds practical release checklists.

Responsibilities

• Manually test new pod features and releases before shipment.
• Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected and actual behavior, logs, and screenshots.
• Communicate with engineers to help bugs get fixed, verified, and shipped to production.
• Write automated tests for repeated checks, including end-to-end scripts and headless browser tests.
• Automate repeated end-to-end checks that should run before every release.

Requirements

• Experience in QA, software testing, release testing, or a similar role.
• Strong manual testing skills, including creating test cases, reproducing bugs, and documenting issues.
• Experience testing APIs, CLIs, backend services, infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
• Comfort using command-line tools, reading logs, running scripts, and working in local or staging environments.
• Some experience with automated testing, scripting, smoke tests, regression tests, or end-to-end tests.
• Strong ownership of release quality and persistence in understanding behavior.
• Nice to have experience with blockchain systems, exchanges, trading systems, fintech products, databases, Docker, CI, Kubernetes, cloud environments, or API testing tools.
• Experience writing scripts or tests in Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Bash is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus meaningful token/equity upside.
• Real ownership of QA and release quality from day one.
• High-impact role in a small, ambitious engineering team.
• Opportunity to work on technically challenging distributed systems and market infrastructure.
• Occasional travel for team offsites and crypto industry events.