Staff Quality Engineer

Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at ScaleKikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.Why KikoffThis is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.About The RoleYou will be Kikoff's first quality engineer. Millions of users trust our platform, and quality is essential to that trust. Today we have solid unit test coverage and user feedback loops — but no automation frameworks, no quality metrics, and no systematic approach to quality. You'll change that.You'll define our quality strategy, build the systems that implement it, and enable product teams to own quality themselves. This is a foundational engineering role: you build frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and developer tooling — you don't gatekeep releases.This role reports to the Foundational Engineering org, and is a peer to the cloud platform and security leads.IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILLDefine Quality StrategyAssess quality gaps across backend (Ruby on Rails), web (SolidJS), and mobile (Flutter/Dart)Establish quality metrics and baselines — defect escape rates, CI feedback loop speed, test reliability, coverage rampPresent a quality roadmap to engineering leadership with clear milestones and resource needsBuild Quality SystemsDesign and implement test automation frameworks across backend, web, and mobileExpand automated testing from unit coverage to integration, E2E, contract, and visual regressionBuild quality gates into CI/CD pipelines at diff, merge, and release stagesCreate self-service testing tools that product teams adopt independentlyPartner with platform engineering on ephemeral environments and local execution automationEnable Product TeamsTrain engineers on testing frameworks and quality practicesBuild documentation and runbooks that make self-service the defaultDrive adoption through transparency: dashboards, coverage gaps, flaky test tracking, quality trendsCollaborate with Security on compliance testing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)Integrate AI into QualityEmbed quality controls into AI-assisted development workflowsBuild or integrate AI-powered testing tools (test generation, triage, regression detection)YOU HAVE10+ years in quality engineering, with multiple instances of building QA functions or automation frameworks from scratchStrong coding ability — you build tools, frameworks, and infrastructure beyond test scriptsExperience across multiple surfaces: backend, web, mobile, APIDeep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test integration at various stagesTrack record of measurable quality impact: you can cite specific metrics you movedEnablement mindset — you build systems that make other engineers more effectiveComfortable with ambiguity and able to define direction independentlyNICE TO HAVEExperience with AI-assisted testing workflows or eval systems for AI-generated codeFlutter/Dart mobile testing experienceFintech or regulated industry experienceInfrastructure-as-code familiarity (Pulumi, Terraform)Performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter)Open source testing framework contributionsBase Range$200,000 - $240,000 USDEqual Employment Opportunity StatementKikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.Please reference the following for more information.