Senior Quality Engineer - Circle

About Us

Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 270 team members from 30+ countries around the world. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and twice a year, we bring the whole company together for our company offsites.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to help shape how quality is built into our product.

Our SQEs work across multiple product teams, partnering with Engineering, Product Leads, and Design across different areas of Circle. You’ll get involved throughout the development lifecycle, exploring ideas, identifying risks, challenging assumptions, and helping teams make better decisions about quality.

What You'll Be Doing

Product Quality

• Partner with multiple product teams across different areas of Circle.
• Get involved early in product, design, and engineering discussions.
• Identify meaningful product, technical, and customer risks.
• Bring a quality perspective to user journeys, UI/UX, requirements, and technical approaches.
• Shape pragmatic, risk-based testing approaches based on the change and its potential impact.

Automation & Technical Quality

• Build and maintain reliable automated coverage across web, APIs, and integrations.
• Make thoughtful decisions about what to automate, where to test it, and what provides the strongest signal.
• Investigate complex failures across the application, APIs, CI pipelines, and supporting systems.
• Work with engineers to improve testability, reliability, and developer feedback loops.
• Use modern engineering and AI-assisted tooling where it improves planning, automation, debugging, or investigation.

Quality Strategy & Enablement

• Identify recurring or systemic quality issues and drive improvements across teams.
• Use bugs, production issues, and quality signals to improve prevention, not just detection.
• Help teams make informed decisions about risk, coverage, and release confidence.
• Share knowledge and approaches that strengthen quality ownership across Engineering.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent), as most collaboration at Circle happens asynchronously.
• Strong experience working as a Quality Engineer within modern product engineering teams.
• Strong web test automation experience with Playwright, TypeScript, or comparable technologies.
• Good knowledge of API and integration testing.
• Strong exploratory and risk-based testing skills.
• Confidence reading application code and debugging complex technical issues.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Strong product judgement and care for the user experience.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams, switching context, and getting up to speed quickly.
• Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy and identify where your input creates the most value.
• Confident asking questions, challenging assumptions, and influencing decisions constructively.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach to balancing quality, risk, and delivery.

Bonus Points

• Experience building quality platforms, test infrastructure, automation frameworks, or developer tooling.
• Mobile testing, particularly React Native, iOS, or Android.
• Payments or integration-heavy products.
• Observability and production monitoring.
• Performance and load testing.
• Developer experience or engineering productivity.

Compensation & Benefits

• U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally
• Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants
• 35 days of paid time off each year
• Company retreats twice a year in incredible destinations around the world
• Benefits package supporting health, wellbeing, and professional growth