Senior Platform Quality Engineer

Our mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. We empower students with financial support and supercharge their ability to pay down their debt, so they can get on the right financial track, fast.

We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including:

• Private student loans - low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments.
• Student loan refinancing - break free from high-interest rates or monthly payments.
• Scholarships - access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.

Earnies are committed to helping students live their best lives, free from the stress of student debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together!

The Senior Platform Quality Engineer position will report to the Head of Quality Engineering. 

As the Senior Platform Quality Engineer, you will:

• Ensure service compatibility and consumer-driven development using your deep understanding of contract testing principles (e.g., Pact, Spring Cloud Contract).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that effective testing methodologies and automated testing tools are seamlessly integrated into the development process.
• Champion test-driven development practices across development teams to prevent and detect errors, and ensure faster feedback.
• Tackle intricate technical challenges associated with infrastructure, testing and quality engineering.
• Set up and maintain testing infrastructure (e.g., cloud environments, container orchestration) to support scalable test execution.
• Proactively work with development teams to identify potential production issues and help devise strategies to mitigate risk.
• Help build a culture of shift-left and collective ownership of quality at Earnest.

Your Impact:

• Design, develop and promote tools and frameworks that enable developers to validate functionality of web applications, services and APIs.
• Drive the adoption of efficient quality engineering processes and identify gaps in test tooling.

About You: 

• Bachelor’s in CS, Engineering or equivalent experience of 5+ years of quality engineering experience.
• Experience with server-side concepts, e.g. microservices, database, caching, performance, monitoring and scalability.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js, Node.js.
• Test automation technologies: Mocha, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured, k6, Pact.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Willingness to travel to the Oakland office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies.

Even Better:

• Performance Testing: Familiarity with performance testing tools to evaluate API and service performance under load.
• Security Testing Knowledge: Basic understanding of security testing concepts and tools to advocate for secure development practices.
• API Design: Knowledge of API design principles and tools for creating robust and scalable APIs can be advantageous, particularly in architect roles.
• Experience working in Fintech, Banking, or related Consumer Financial Services companies.

Where:

• This role will be based in the US. 

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A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future.

Pay Range $130,000—$172,000 USD

Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including: 

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world 
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Competitive parental leave

What makes an “Earnie” culture: 

• Drivers – Drivers are satisfied by making things happen, not coming along for the ride. They feel a s