Senior Quality Engineer

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 147 - 183

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Caribou

At Caribou we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on whats most important to them. Today less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions and ushering them through the process quickly. On average our drivers save $159/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term.

Caribou is led by leaders from the technology automotive and finance industries. Were proud to be backed by a great team of investors including QED Investors Goldman Sachs Moderne Ventures Accomplice Link Ventures Motley Fool Ventures and others.

About the Role

Do you thrive on building testing platforms that make great tests inevitable Do you believe that when engineers take the lead on testing their own work the end result is a superior product This may be the Quality Engineering role for you.

Youll join a team of 3 QE engineers using Playwright Claude Code and Harness to build the frameworks tooling and standards that make robust automated testing the path of least resistance. Youll choose testing stacks (RSpec over Minitest) write enablement tools and coach teams on testable code. Our goal: help Caribou reach DORA Elite performance by empowering engineers not blocking or testing for them.

Interview Roadmap:

Recruiter phone interview (45 mins)
Coding assessment (25-60 mins)
Hiring Manager video interview (60 mins)
Final interview loop (combined 4 hrs scheduled across 1-4 business days):
- System Design Interview (60 mins)
- Project Delivery & Scope Interview (60 mins)
- Product Partnership & Business Acumen Interview (60 mins)
- Collaboration & Communication Interview (60 mins)

What Youll Do

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

What Were Looking For

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 requiredmost of our platform is Rails.

We know strong candidates rarely meet 100% of requirements. If youre excited about quality enablement and meet most of these wed love to hear from you. We encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds to apply.

Location and Flexibility

This role can be based out of our Caribou office in Denver CO. Alternatively this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates with a preference for the Chicago IL Denver CO or San Francisco CA markets. This role may require attendance at occasional in-person team meetings.

About You

Youre a pragmatic technically-minded leader who sees quality as shared responsibility. Youre guided by data and possess the strategic vision to turn quality insights into engineering action. You communicate effectively with both technical teams and executives.

You like us are committed to achieving your goals. At Caribou we have three core values: Give a damn. Velocity. Make the assist. Were owners who move with urgency towards our outcomes and help each other along the way.

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

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 $1000 per year for eligible professional development expenses
Employee referral program

Our Core Values

We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values which guide our work and how we work together.

Give a damn. What were doing matters. We show up determined to deliver results and we love it.
Velocity. Were intentional about where were going and we race towards it.
Make the assist. We have diverse strengths. We offer and ask for help so we all win.

Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation pregnancy status marital status military or protected veteran status genetics or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.

*Caribou does not currently have employee operations in AL AK AR CT DE GA HI IA ID IN KS KY ME MI MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV OH OK PA RI SC SD TN UT VT WV WY.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

About CaribouAt Caribou we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on whats most important to them. Today less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their mo...