Senior Backend Engineer - Test Execution Team for Web

Global Market for QA

Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

About Us

Autify, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup that was founded by the first Japanese team to graduate from Alchemist Accelerator, one of the top accelerators in the US. With the mission to empower people’s creativity through technology, we have been offering an AI-powered automation platform aiming to eliminate the test phase.

Since 2019, we’ve been providing our AI-powered nocode test automation product and have grown the team to 100+. Our next move is to double down on GenAI. As we have been investing in AI and helping customers’ software quality since 2019, we know how to best utilize GenAI in software QA. With that, we have recently launched our new product, Zenes, a GenAI agent for software quality assurance.

Job Purpose

Since its official release in October 2019, Autify has been implemented by numerous clients, and our client base is continuing to grow. While we provide all the essential functions required in a test automation platform, we continue to receive requests for new functions and improvements. Autify is working on growing the product further by adding new features. For this reason, we are expanding our backend engineer team to further develop and improve Autify’s highly reliable test execution mechanism. We are looking for a senior engineer to join our Test Execution team for Web

You will mainly be responsible for developing and improving the no-code web application of our platform. You will also examine bug reports from customers, work on fixing them, and also apply the findings when improving the core engine and architecture of the product. This job title encompasses backend/infrastructure work, front end work is also in the scope although the major work will be in the back end side.

You can find more info here: En: https://autify.com/ Jp: https://autify.com/ja/ About Autify: https://help.autify.com/v1#

Responsibilities

• Work with other engineers, designers, and product leads to implement various features while considering performance, security, and reliability.
• Investigate and solve issues that occur in specific browsers and applications
• Web application development using Ruby on Rails and TypeScript.
• Facilitate future development by continually improving the existing systems architecture, code quality, CI/CD pipeline, etc.
• Work with other teams to improve our E2E test automation product built with Appium, Selenium, Webdriver, etc.
• Participate in incident handling and on-call rotations.
• Proactively identify functions that can be improved, and suggest possible solutions in the technical aspects and product-related ideas.

Required Qualifications

• Over 7 years of experience in web development specializing in backend and has some experience in frontend languages/frameworks.
• Experience with refactoring and working with legacy core components of the code.
• Experience in developing backend with Rails, Ruby, Node.js, or Go.
• Modern development experience with Agile or Scrum.
• Ability to communicate and work in English and have good communication skills to work smoothly within the team and communicate with cross-functional teams when needed.
• Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience in developing frontend with Typescript or Javascript
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver or Playwright
• Experience developing and working with Chrome extensions.
• Proficient in the process of analyzing, hypothesizing and testing
• Experience in infrastructure with Docker, AWS, GCP or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in E2E test automation with Selenium and Appium

Desired Personality Traits

• Has a product mindset who can identify and understand issues from the user's point of view and sympathize with them.
• Has a problem-solving mindset.