QA Engineer

Company

About us

Placid Money is an ambitious US fintech that changes how Americans use $1T (yes, trillion:) of credit card debt . Placid turns debt into savings:

• We provide low interest credit lines to refinance expensive credit card debt
• We build investments from interest and fees that we help save

Mission

We are on a mission to make credit cheaper for those who need it most and help people leverage credit to become better off financially.

Our guiding principle is maximum impact, minimum disturbance — giving our customers the easiest way to create assets out of liabilities without much disruption to their financial lives.

Culture

We're a remote squad. We praise autonomy, self-motivation and self-management. We expect everyone to truly care about what they do, take pride in how they do it and strive for self and team improvement.

We believe we're working on some really cool things that will make a dent for society as a whole and hope everyone who joins will find it fascinating to connect the dots between their work and the impact it has.

If you love technology and helping people - we'd love to talk.

Position

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer. It's a great opportunity for those who love autonomy, fast-paced environment, extended responsibility and steep learning curves - you'll be on the early team of an ambitious fintech, working with the CTO and contributing most directly to the performance of the product, as well as positively affecting lives of millions of consumers.

Your job is to find bugs before the end-user does and work together with developers to troubleshoot and debug issues found during product development. You'll do this with manual testing, working with engineers to develop test scenarios, reviewing designs to see if they're likely to cause quality issues and anything else you come up with. We'd love to support your growth to the Automation QA role if you're interested.

Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership, enjoys taking projects from inception to release: excellent communication and attention to detail will be critical to your success. We value people who are enthusiastic, curious, learn quickly, and take pride in their work.

You'll get

• stable compensation $2,000-$3,000
• potential equity options
• flexible hours, remote setup
• autonomy and influence
• globally resellable and highly in-demand experience in FinTech
• work closely with the founding team in an open, fast moving and fun environment
• experience with launching products in the most competitive market in the world
• steep learning curve across a wide range of hard and soft skills and responsibilities
• contribute to building products with a big social mission and world class customer experiences

Requirements

• 1-3 years Quality Assurance Tester or similar role
• Debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to clearly document errors
• Exceptional communication skills
• Advanced English reading / writing skills