Senior SDET (Engineer + DevOps + Quality Engineer)

We are looking for an Senior SDET Engineer you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization in combination with building and scaling our production environment. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience, a passion for quality engineering, systems engineering, automating operations, infrastructure security, and high-availability systems as well as experience in software development. We are heavily invested in Ruby on Rails, Mongo, and ElasticSearch.

As a Senior SDET Engineer you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build so much more.

Your responsibilities

• Lead in implementing the overall testing strategy and methodologies for the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and software development goals.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools, and processes in software testing; evaluate and recommend their adoption to keep the organization at the forefront of testing best practices.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex bugs and issues, working with development teams to ensure long-term solutions are implemented.
• Collaborate with the DevOps/Infra team to improve our existing infrastructure and solve daily operational challenges and improve Engineering productivity.
• Work cross-functionally with various teams at Apollo.
• Database support with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisCache and BigQuery.
• Lead the design and development of advanced automated testing frameworks and tools that can scale and adapt to various projects and technologies.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate quality assurance processes early in the software development lifecycle.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
• Serve as a thought leader in software testing, mentoring and guiding QE teams, and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
• Oversee and manage complex testing projects, coordinating with multiple teams to ensure timelines, budgets, and quality targets are met.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• you develop the code "from scratch"
• you focus on product development
• you focus on code maintenance
• agile
• kanban

What we offer

• Base salary + 10% yearly bonus + equity
• Contract of employment (Polish UoP via Remote.com) + AKUP 50% tax deductible costs with 70% Creativity factor
• 100% remote work (we don’t have offices and we don’t plan to have them) - no hybrid, no forcing People to get back to the offices
• Global Allianz Insurance and Medical Package covered by Apollo
• 1200 USD educational budget
• 300 USD Work From Home Stipend
• 4 additional PTO days for Engineering (Rest Days)
• 100% remote work and flexible working hours

Benefits

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• integration events

What You’ll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!

Our requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
• 5+ years of experience in developing software, automated frameworks and test automation tools
• Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and various types of databases
• You possess a good knowledge of MongoDB or ElasticSearch
• Experience with technologies like Docker, VPN, Kubernetes (strong experience with Kubernetes would be a preference)
• Experience with Distributed Systems
• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright or Rspec
• Exposure to modern backend programming languages - Java, Python or Ruby (at least one of them)
• Experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript
• Familiarity with cloud solutions GCP or AWS

Optional

• 5+ years of experience providing technical leadership and leading projects (e.g., test, release, etc.).
• Experience developing/ designing automated internal frameworks, managing monitoring systems, or improving testing effectiveness.
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization. Candidates should demonstrate fluency in integrating AI-driven solutions into their workflows and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies.

OUR TECH STACK

Ruby/RoR, Python, React.js, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.