As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.
We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Quality Engineer (SDET) to lead our end-to-end quality engineering initiatives across mobile, web, backend, and data platforms. This role combines deep technical expertise with a forward-thinking, AI-first mindset, driving innovation, scalability, and reliability through advanced automation and intelligent testing strategies. As a senior member of the team, you will champion modern, AI-enhanced quality practices and help build a culture where continuous improvement, automation-first thinking, and data-driven decisions are embedded at every stage of product development.
This is a hybrid position in Mountain View (Headquarters) and will require in-office work 2 days a week. The base salary range for this full-time position is $210,000 to $257,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. EarnIn provides excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, and a learning and development stipend.
Own end-to-end quality across iOS and Android applications and their supporting backend services, ensuring high confidence in weekly (or faster) releases.
Design and implement comprehensive test strategies covering:
Ensure critical user journeys are validated across mobile UI → API → backend → web touchpoints, preventing production escapes in high-impact flows.
Partner with engineering teams to embed quality gates into the mobile release lifecycle, including pre-merge validation, release candidate verification, and post-deploy smoke testing.
Drive improvements in testability by introducing better logging, API contracts, observability hooks, feature flags, and deterministic state management.
Establish meaningful quality metrics (crash analytics, defect trends, flaky tests, API reliability, release risk scoring) and surface actionable insights to engineering stakeholders.
Champion shift-left quality by influencing design reviews, API schema discussions, and acceptance criteria early in development.
Leverage AI to enhance mobile, backend, and web testing effectiveness, including:
Integrate AI-powered log intelligence, crash clustering, and anomaly detection into quality workflows.
Continuously evaluate and experiment with AI-driven QA tools to increase coverage, reduce maintenance overhead, and accelerate release cycles.
Contribute to building an AI-augmented quality ecosystem that improves speed without compromising reliability.
Design, build, and scale robust automation frameworks using:
Ensure frameworks are modular, maintainable, and optimized for scale across multiple teams.
Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.) to enable:
Build developer-friendly tooling that enables:
Continuously reduce flakiness, improve signal quality, and optimize execution time across mobile and backend suites.
Design and execute performance validation across:
Partner with engineering teams to analyze production logs, crash reports, browser telemetry, and service metrics.
Lead root-cause analysis of complex cross-layer defects spanning mobile UI, APIs, backend services, and web surfaces.
Ensure reliability validation is embedded directly into release workflows.
Collaborate closely with mobile engineers, backend developers, web engineers, product managers, DevOps teams, and release managers to define clear, testable requirements and release criteria.
Actively participate in sprint grooming, planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
Influence best practices around mobile-first design, API contracts, and release readiness.
Support mobile app release activities, including release candidate validation, go/no-go recommendations, and post-release monitoring.
Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar in automation and cross-platform validation.
Work effectively with globally distributed teams to coordinate testing across time zones.
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At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.
EarnIn lets you access your money as you earn it — not days or weeks later.
We’re reimagining the way money moves to make financial momentum accessible to everyone. That starts with payday every day and builds with tools like credit monitoring, automated savings accounts, and low-balance protection. All with no interest, no credit checks, and no mandatory fees. So our customers have as many options as possible to save and spend on their terms.
EarnIn’s pioneering Earned Wage Access app is backed by world-class partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, and DST. Since our founding in 2013, 3.8 million customers have given it over 380,000 5-star reviews for helping them access over $15 billion in earnings. That means:
- 49% can now cover an unexpected expense of $400 since using EarnIn
- 73% can budget more effectively with EarnIn
- 66% have been able to pay bills on time with EarnIn’s help
We’re proud of that impact. Because no one should feel stuck — held back from their ambitions, their life — simply because they can’t access the money they’ve already earned. That’s why EarnIn is here, to help people move forward with the lives they want today and the goals they have for tomorrow.
Join us.
EarnIn is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Deposit Account, Secured Account, and EarnIn Card are issued by Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The EarnIn Card is issued pursuant to a license from Visa USA Inc.
