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Farther FinanceFarther FinanceNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

Build and maintain testing infrastructure, automation frameworks, and intelligent CI/CD pipelines for a fintech wealth management platform. Requires 5+ years experience with TypeScript, modern testing tools (Jest, Playwright, Cypress), and infrastructure as code to ensure reliable, fast testing across frontend and backend systems.

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Hybrid5+ YOEQA Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain robust tooling and testing infrastructure to support engineering workflows across frontend and backend systems.
  • Create comprehensive automation frameworks for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress.
  • Build intelligent CI/CD pipelines that run tests efficiently through advanced techniques like file-change tracking, smart test selection, and parallelization strategies.
  • Develop sophisticated utilities for mocking APIs, stubbing external services, and spinning up isolated testing environments that mirror production conditions.
  • Monitor test reliability and performance metrics to continuously drive improvements in feedback speed and signal quality across all engineering teams.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure code is testable, traceable, and properly instrumented to build confidence in our deployments.
  • Create comprehensive documentation and onboard teams to best practices in test architecture and optimized developer workflows.
  • Drive key technical decisions for testing infrastructure that supports our critical trading systems and portfolio management platform.
  • Establish testing standards and architectural patterns that enable rapid, confident product development across all our wealth management offerings.
  • Partner with backend teams to build reusable test fixtures and data factories for complex financial workflows and regulatory scenarios.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform engineering.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright).
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Datadog, Terraform, or similar).
  • Solid understanding of test automation patterns, mocking strategies, and test environment management.
  • AWS Infra & Deployment experience.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration for test environments.
  • Knowledge of database testing strategies and test data management.
  • Strong foundation in software engineering principles and system design.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools for test infrastructure.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex testing issues.
  • Strong written communication skills and documentation practices.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with financial services or regulated industry testing requirements.
  • Knowledge of property-based testing and fuzzing techniques.
  • Experience with distributed testing and load testing frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Scala or Python testing ecosystems.
  • Background in building developer productivity tools.
  • Experience with test reporting and analytics platforms.
  • Knowledge of security testing and compliance validation.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software.
  • Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions.
  • Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together.

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptjestvitestcypressPlaywrightGitHub ActionsJenkinsaws cdkTerraformDatadogAWS

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