Staff Quality Engineer

San Francisco

Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money. We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.

Why Kikoff:

This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact. ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be Kikoff's first quality engineer. Millions of users trust our platform, and quality is essential to that trust. Today we have solid unit test coverage and user feedback loops — but no automation frameworks, no quality metrics, and no systematic approach to quality. You'll change that.

You'll define our quality strategy, build the systems that implement it, and enable product teams to own quality themselves. This is a foundational engineering role: you build frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and developer tooling — you don't gatekeep releases.

This role reports to the Foundational Engineering org, and is a peer to the cloud platform and security leads.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

Define Quality Strategy

Assess quality gaps across backend (Ruby on Rails), web (SolidJS), and mobile (Flutter/Dart)

Establish quality metrics and baselines — defect escape rates, CI feedback loop speed, test reliability, coverage ramp

Present a quality roadmap to engineering leadership with clear milestones and resource needs

Build Quality Systems

Design and implement test automation frameworks across backend, web, and mobile

Expand automated testing from unit coverage to integration, E2E, contract, and visual regression

Build quality gates into CI/CD pipelines at diff, merge, and release stages

Create self-service testing tools that product teams adopt independently

Partner with platform engineering on ephemeral environments and local execution automation

Enable Product Teams

Train engineers on testing frameworks and quality practices

Build documentation and runbooks that make self-service the default

Drive adoption through transparency: dashboards, coverage gaps, flaky test tracking, quality trends

Collaborate with Security on compliance testing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)

Integrate AI into Quality

Embed quality controls into AI-assisted development workflows

Build or integrate AI-powered testing tools (test generation, triage, regression detection)

YOU HAVE

10+ years in quality engineering, with multiple instances of building QA functions or automation frameworks from scratch

Strong coding ability — you build tools, frameworks, and infrastructure beyond test scripts

Experience across multiple surfaces: backend, web, mobile, API

Deep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test integration at various stages

Track record of measurable quality impact: you can cite specific metrics you moved

Enablement mindset — you build systems that make other engineers more effective

Comfortable with ambiguity and able to define direction independently

NICE TO HAVE

Experience with AI-assisted testing workflows or eval systems for AI-generated code

Flutter/Dart mobile testing experience

Fintech or regulated industry experience

Infrastructure-as-code familiarity (Pulumi, Terraform)

Performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter)

Open source testing framework contributions

Base Range $200,000 — $240,000 USD Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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