# Senior Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

**Company:** [Farther Finance](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/farther-finance)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, jest, vitest, cypress, Playwright, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, aws cdk, Terraform, Datadog, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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