2 days ago
Base Salary
$129k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical vision for quality engineering across Financial Reporting products.
- Build and evolve scalable automated test frameworks covering API, integration, contract, end-to-end, user-workflow, performance, and resiliency testing.
- Design quality-platform capabilities for distributed systems, including CI/CD integrations, test environments, release validation, and quality signals.
- Drive performance, load, scale, reliability, and chaos-testing strategies for critical services and customer workflows.
- Establish quality metrics, telemetry standards, and dashboards to identify release risk, vulnerabilities, and regressions.
- Govern the safety, testability, consistency, readiness evaluation, rollback, and human-confirmation paths for AI-generated code and agent integrations.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy and architecture through implementation, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
- Prototype and deliver shared platform components while enabling product teams to adopt reusable quality capabilities.
- Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers and establish scalable engineering standards across product teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in software engineering, software development in test, test infrastructure, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience leading complex, ambiguous, multi-team technical initiatives from strategy through delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
- Advanced experience evaluating AI-assisted or agent-authored code and building frameworks for measuring AI-agent decision correctness.
- Experience designing scalable automated testing strategies and tooling for distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and backend infrastructure.
- Proficiency in one or more of TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.
- Experience with CI/CD integration, test environments, release validation, observability, and multiple testing layers.
- Experience architecting quality-engineering solutions in cloud-native environments using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Playwright.
- Ability to influence technical leaders, mentor engineers, establish reusable platforms or standards, and align distributed engineering organizations.
- Experience managing outsourced testing teams is preferred.
Benefits
- US salary range of $129,000.00-$210,000.00, with a discretionary bonus typically paid annually.
- Restricted Stock Units at the time of hire, 401(k) match, and comprehensive employee benefits.
- Remote or office work options within the employee’s country of employment, with reliable internet required when working remotely.
- Up to 10% travel for team jams and an internal developer conference.
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About Workiva
Workiva builds a cloud platform for connected financial, regulatory, and ESG reporting used by finance, accounting, risk, and audit teams at enterprises and government agencies. Its SaaS products support SEC and SEDAR filings, SOX/internal controls, enterprise risk management, and audit-ready collaboration with data linking and workflow automation. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Ames, Iowa, Workiva is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker WK.