About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Please take a look at remote.com/handbook to learn more about our culture and what it is like to work here. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor or look up the results of our candidate surveys to see how others feel about working and interviewing here.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The Position

You'll be joining 180+ engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, Data and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to a specific area of our product.

As Junior QA Engineer, you will be working directly with other QA Engineers in challenging implementations to support the whole company by creating tests for Cypress in JavaScript and our Elixir backend as well as closely together with one or multiple teams to assist them in testing and improving their quality processes.

You'll be coached by more senior QA Engineers and Developers in best practices on automation for our front-end and back-end solutions, assist on CI improvements and help enforcing a quality mindset throughout the company.

What this job can offer you

• Making impactful quality-wise improvements across the company.
• Learn / improve coding expertise by automating tests for both front-end and back-end.
• Work closely together with both QA engineers and developers.
• A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups or other ceremonies.
• A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.
• Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture — read more about our practices and work ethic.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, a generous learning budget, and a set of other perks and benefits.

What you bring

• Good communication skills in both listening and understanding, as well as speaking and being understood
• The ability to read through documentations, understand requirements and ask questions when in doubt
• Basic JavaScript programming logic to increase our test coverage and participate on discussions with the product development teams
• Willingness to listen and learn from more senior engineers and develop new skills
• Strong ability to work independently and self-guided
• Knowledge of testing principles and applying them to work beyond the happy path

Practicals

• You'll report to: QA Team Lead
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Americas, Europe, and Africa.
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

Application process

Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. (async) Code challenge
4. (async) Code Challenge Review
5. Interview with team members
6. Prior employment verifica