Caribou
Putting drivers in control of their car payments by unlocking competitive rates and making the process fast and easy.
Senior Quality Engineer
Location
Arizona + 2 moreAll locations: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois
Posted
46 days ago
Salary
$147K - $183K / year
Bachelor DegreeEnglishDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJestMochaRspecRubyRuby ON Rails
Job Description
• Guide framework decisions: Choose and standardize testing tools (RSpec over Minitest, Jest over Mocha) and lead architectural adoption across the platform
• Build enablement infrastructure: Design factory patterns, data seeds, and service stubs enabling sophisticated testing in inner development loops without full integration
• Define quality standards together: Establish coverage thresholds, test suite structures for product types, and boundary metrics giving teams clear targets
• Optimize delivery pipelines: Integrate quality gates into CI/CD, balance performance and reliability, and analyze data to eliminate shipping bottlenecks
• Mentor and share best practices: Collaborate with teams on avoiding flaky tests, designing testable code, and building robust automated coverage
• Enable data-informed improvements: Analyze quality metrics (flaky tests, incidents, DORA) to identify systemic issues and facilitate process improvements
Job Requirements
- Experience with Ruby on Rails applications
- Building or evolving test automation frameworks (RSpec, Capybara, Playwright, or similar)
- Production systems and collaborative debugging
- Translating quality metrics into actionable improvements (DORA metrics experience a plus)
- Mentoring or coaching teams to strengthen engineering practices
- Nice to have: GCP, Docker, or containerized environments
- CI/CD pipeline optimization
- Interest in using AI to boost testing productivity
- Ruby on Rails experience is required—most of our platform is Rails.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: $147k - $183k
- Eligible for annual performance-based Incentive
- Equity options
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents
- Exceptional benefits including highly subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, and fully company-paid mental health, disability, and basic life insurance
- Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs (with Caribou HSA contributions), FSAs, supplemental life and health, legal, and pet insurance
- Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses
- Employee referral program