Software Engineer in Test

About Acala

Acala’s mission is to build and nurture the autonomous financial infrastructure of the decentralized web. Delivering on this mission will bring more financial accessibility, opportunity, and prosperity to everyone on the planet through a new, open financial system.

Our core project is the Acala Network itself, which we expect to become the de facto DeFi parachain and stablecoin of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkadot provides the underlying trust primitives to our parachain, upon which we’ve built our suite of financial primitives including; Multi-collateralized Stablecoin; Trustless Staking Derivatives, and Unified Decentralized Exchange. These primitives will be used by us and other teams to power open DeFi innovations, and burn away all need for the parasitic intermediaries that inhabit almost every conventional trust-based financial system.

We have secured our support from eminent backers like Polychain, Coinbase Venture, Pantera and many more. We’re still preparing Acala’s parachain launch, so there’s no better time to join our mission and be a part of the future that we’re building. Because whoever you are, we’re building it for you. 🚀

About the role

We are looking for an experienced SDET to join Acala’s Blockchain Engineering team of 10+ Engineers. Our platform consists of; Rust-based blockchain nodes; an EVM of Solidity-based smart contracts; and a variety of other Fullstack elements like Typescript / React / Node.js. Our Developers already have mature pre-release checklists for these various projects, but it will be your job to help us tie them all together into a unified Test & Release Strategy - and to automate as much of it as possible.

As the 1st SDET at Acala you will have an ‘open menu’ regarding what tools to use for; internal release; public beta release(s); production release; and deciding what we should (or shouldn’t) be automating in the process. We have created this role now because we are ready for a dedicated SDET, and we know that there are great Engineers out there who know how to setup and run QA processes ‘from zero’ but haven’t yet been given the chance to do so - this is your opportunity.

Our ideal candidate(s) will also have some exposure to build management for a set of web-based applications, and will be able to discuss the highs and lows of release scheduling at interview. We’re expecting to hire someone who is familiar with blockchain concepts, but we’re open to a wide range of Engineers that might be focused on more traditional applications, provided they are aware of blockchain trends and what we’re building.

Competitive Salary | Full Time | Contract | Remote anywhere

What you’ll do

• Work closely with our CTO (Bryan) to maintain Acala’s QA, Build & Release strategy
• Work with our COO (Bette) & Product Team to identify new and vulnerable test cases
• Work with our experienced JS Engineers to enhance their QA & Release checklists
• Own Release Management tasks, and Issue tracking/sorting on Github
• Possible extensions; Security / Vulnerability auditing; Load and performance testing

What it takes

• 5 years (or more) experience with Production Quality Software Processes
• At least 3 years focused on BackEnd QA & Release for web-based applications
• Experience as a SDET or QAE in a startup, preferably using JS tools & frameworks
• Expert knowledge of test tools & frameworks for Js/Ts; Mocha, Jest, Nightwatch, etc
• Basic knowledge of common Smart Contracts use cases
• Bonus: Experience building/testing Rust applications

What we offer

• Competitive contract-based compensation (you’ll have to invoice us from wherever you are)
• Flexible working hours within Pacific timezones
• Collaborative, transparent and empowering work culture
• Meaningful work on creating better technologies for a fairer future
• Opportunity to work in a multinational, high-performance team with diverse backgrounds

More Information

• Series A statement by CEO Ruitao Su
• Web3 Grant statement by COO Bette Chen
• Coinbase investment statement by Growth VP Dan Reecer
• Find us on GitHub, YouTube, Twitter & Discord
• Get started! Try out our Testnet for yourself

NB: For more information on this position, our employment conditions, or anything related to working for Acala, get in touch with our Talent Manager: [email protected].

Our Team

With approximately 40 full-time team members working across 8 different countries, our team is truly decentralised. We’re some of the leading blockchain innovators, Substrate & Rust engineers, full-stack dApp developers, & Economist Analysts. But we’re just people like you, working from our shared desire for a fairer and more inclusive financial system, in direct contrast to the clear shortcomings of the current institutions that run our world.

Our Values

The community we’re building is shaped by our values and fuelled by the needs of all humans:

• Inclusion, Care, Trust, and Respect
• Empowerment
• Guidance and Support
• Friendship, Community, Real Relationships

We’re building Acala based on a core set of values we believe are in line with the tenets of web3:

• True decentralisation
• Less Trust, More Truth
• Integrity
• Accountability
• Empowering individuals with more autonomy

What We Have Achieved

Acala was founded in 2019 as an early Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and is an ecosystem and education partner of both the W3F and Polkadot. Throughout 2021 we have proven ourselves to be the DeFi hub(s) of the Polkadot Ecosystem & Community by securing the first crowdloan-funded parachain slots on both the Polkadot & Kusama blockchain networks. But even at this, our true work has only just begun…