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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Quality Engineer - **Company:** ANN OF ANN ARBOR - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Test Suite, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Apache Ant, Application Performance Management, Systems Engineering, Automation of Tests, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Strategies of Testing, TypeScript, ReactJS, Grafana, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Gitlab, Pytest, Playwright, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Front End Software Development, JestJS, Terraform - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-quality-engineer-skyspecs-8778671 ## About the Role * 5+ years building and maintaining quality platforms, automated testing systems, developer tooling, or similar engineering systems for production software. * Strong software engineering fundamentals and systems-thinking. * Deep understanding of software quality across testing, observability, application performance, and production systems. * Experience designing and maintaining automated testing frameworks, quality infrastructure, CI/CD quality gates, and engineering feedback systems. * Experience developing and maintaining automated quality solutions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and production systems. * Experience using production telemetry, application performance monitoring, session replay, or similar tools to identify and prioritize quality improvements. * Ability to independently drive quality initiatives from concept through implementation. * Strong written communication skills. * Demonstrated ability to work within a cross-functional team of technical and non-technical contributors. * Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, and a track record of evolving how you use them. * Sound judgment when using AI tools, including reviewing and correcting agent-generated tests and code. Bonus Points for * Familiarity with our stack: AWS, GitLab, Auth0, Grafana, Terraform, Kafka, Node.js, TypeScript, Apollo GraphQL, React, Ant Design, Vitest, Playwright, and PostgreSQL. * Experience building internal engineering platforms, developer tooling, observability platforms, or quality platforms. * Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and release engineering. * Experience operating distributed systems at scale. * Background in utility-scale energy generation, with an emphasis on renewables., * Own outcomes, not assignments. * Have strong opinions that are loosely held. * Operate autonomously and are self-accountable. * Create clarity from ambiguity. * Improve systems, not just features. * Take initiative in identifying and addressing risks, improvements, and opportunities that increase the impact of their work. * Continuously learn, adapt, and experiment with new technologies and ways of working., Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently located in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States for this employer now and in the future, without the need for visa sponsorship. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. ## Description We think about quality as a platform discipline, not a gate in the development process. Software Engineers own the quality of the software they build. Software Quality Engineers build the platform, tooling, automation, and feedback systems that enable engineering teams to ship software with confidence. Software Quality Engineers help ensure software is not only testable, but also observable and measurable from the moment it is specified. Our platform is built using AWS, GitLab, Auth0, Grafana, Terraform, Kafka, Node.js, TypeScript, Apollo GraphQL, React, Ant Design, and PostgreSQL. Our test suite includes Pytest, Vitest, and Playwright., * Building and maintaining quality infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. * Building tooling that enables Software Engineers to write, execute, and maintain effective tests. * Improving CI/CD quality gates and release confidence. * Building and maintaining application quality telemetry, dashboards, and alerting. * Integrating quality signals from testing, production telemetry, application performance, and user behavior into engineering workflows. * Leveraging AI tools and autonomous agents to accelerate quality engineering. [20%] Partner on solution design and quality strategy. Examples include: * Participating in specification, feature design, and implementation planning. * Helping define clear, testable, observable, and measurable acceptance criteria. * Identifying quality risks and opportunities to improve testability. * Designing high-signal testing strategies across unit, integration, end-to-end, and production environments. * Using production telemetry, application performance metrics, and session recordings to identify user friction, regressions, and opportunities to improve future designs. * Coaching Software Engineers on effective testing, observability, and quality practices. * Reviewing implementation plans, testing approaches, and AI-generated tests. [20%] Improve Horizon, our engineering systems, and the way we work. Examples include: * Continuously improving how we measure user experience, application performance, and release health. * Analyzing production issues and strengthening our quality systems. * Building feedback loops that help engineering teams identify regressions before customers report them. * Exploring new ideas, experiments, and prototypes that could improve Horizon or the way we build software. * Expanding AI and agent capabilities. * Reducing operational toil through automation. 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