SDLC Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer- Tech Lead |100% Remote | US- SaaS Fintech (Product based firm) Role Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain systems on the payments team with primary focus on backend Collaborate with cross-functional teams—product, and design Participate in sprint planning, feasibility assessments, and code reviews Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in Focus on scalability, security, performance, observability, auditability, testability and long-term maintainability Contribute to improving SDLC processes and engineering best practices Troubleshoot production issues and deliver timely resolutions What We're Looking For: 8-12 years of backend engineering experience with a high agency mindset Deep expertise in any of the backend languages (Go or Ruby preferred) Solid grasp of payments domain Proven experience working in Agile/Scrum environments Strong API development skills (RESTful architecture) Excellent problem-solving and communication abilities AI fluent Bonus Points For: (Good to have skills) Experience with payment gateway integrations Familiarity with PCI compliance and secure coding practices Skills in performance optimization (DB, code, etc.) Exposure to GCP or other cloud platforms

Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for a senior-level automation engineer who will help raise the bar on release quality, environment reliability, and change safety across Cohere’s platform. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and SRE to build scalable automation, guardrails, and validation systems that reduce production risk while increasing delivery velocity. This is not a “test scripts only” role. You’ll shape automation strategy, embed quality into the SDLC, and help define how changes move safely from dev → staging → UAT → prod in a fast-moving healthcare platform. You’ll help define how quality scales as Cohere grows. This role has real influence over release safety, platform reliability, and how engineering teams ship software in a regulated, high-impact domain. You won’t just test features — you’ll shape how Cohere delivers them safely to production. What you’ll do: Own and evolve Cohere’s end-to-end test automation strategy across UI, API, config changes, and critical workflows Design and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for multi-tenant, payer-specific workflows Build automated validation for deployment guardrails, release readiness, and production change safety Partner with Platform/DevOps to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows Create automated coverage for high-risk paths (authorization flows, partner integrations, file pipelines, feature flags, config changes) Drive test reliability, flake reduction, and actionable failure signals Define and enforce quality gates for prod releases, blue/green and canary deployments, and config changes Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure business outcomes are testable, measurable, and observable Improve test data management and environment stability to enable reliable automation at scale Mentor engineers on testability, automation best practices, and quality-first development Partner with SRE and Security to ensure production readines

Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for a senior-level automation engineer who will help raise the bar on release quality, environment reliability, and change safety across Cohere’s platform. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and SRE to build scalable automation, guardrails, and validation systems that reduce production risk while increasing delivery velocity. This is not a “test scripts only” role. You’ll shape automation strategy, embed quality into the SDLC, and help define how changes move safely from dev → staging → UAT → prod in a fast-moving healthcare platform. You’ll help define how quality scales as Cohere grows. This role has real influence over release safety, platform reliability, and how engineering teams ship software in a regulated, high-impact domain. You won’t just test features — you’ll shape how Cohere delivers them safely to production. What you’ll do: Own and evolve Cohere’s end-to-end test automation strategy across UI, API, config changes, and critical workflows Design and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for multi-tenant, payer-specific workflows Build automated validation for deployment guardrails, release readiness, and production change safety Partner with Platform/DevOps to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows Create automated coverage for high-risk paths (authorization flows, partner integrations, file pipelines, feature flags, config changes) Drive test reliability, flake reduction, and actionable failure signals Define and enforce quality gates for prod releases, blue/green and canary deployments, and config changes Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure business outcomes are testable, measurable, and observable Improve test data management and environment stability to enable reliable automation at scale Mentor engineers on testability, automation best practices, and quality-first development Partner with SRE and Security to ensure production readines

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 GitHub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com , or follow us on LinkedIn , X , and Reddit . At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission. Summary Support enterprise customers as they adopt BugSnag to improve application stability and software quality. Partner with Sales to deliver technical demonstrations, proof of concepts, and customer evaluations. Build expertise in observability, troubleshooting, and customer-facing solution engineering while growing your technical career. Product Introduction BugSnag helps engineering teams proactively monitor application stability by identifying, prioritizing, and resolving software errors across web,

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 GitHub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com , or follow us on LinkedIn , X , and Reddit . At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission. Summary Support enterprise customers as they adopt BugSnag to improve application stability and software quality. Partner with Sales to deliver technical demonstrations, proof of concepts, and customer evaluations. Build expertise in observability, troubleshooting, and customer-facing solution engineering while growing your technical career. Product Introduction BugSnag helps engineering teams proactively monitor application stability by identifying, prioritizing, and resolving software errors across web,

Roles and Responsibilities Write maintainable/scalable/code Work in a cross-functional team, collaborating with peers during the entire SDLC. Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc. Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines. Qualifications & Experience Experience level of 3 to 6 years of experience in very large scale applications. Fair understanding in problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms. Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data. Fair understanding in coding skills in Java/J2EE, Web technologies, RDBMS/messaging.