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Senior QA Engineer

Mudflap Palo Alto, California, United States Full-time
$155,000
per year

Job Description

Mudflap serves the $800B trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. Our market-leading payment products help truckers save thousands of dollars on fuel (their #1 business expense), while providing our fuel stop partners with access to new, hard-to-reach customers. We’re a fast-growing marketplace business looking for a new exceptional junior engineer to join our transactions and payments team.

As a Senior QA Engineer at Mudflap, you’ll play a pivotal role ensuring that our systems deliver a world-class experience to both truckers and fuel stop partners. You'll join a tight-knit, high-performance team that cares deeply about shipping quality software and supporting each other’s growth.

We're entering a new phase of innovation—building first-of-their-kind financial products in transportation—and your work will help us ship these with confidence, speed, and excellence.

Work Location:

This can be a fully remote position. While we operate across multiple time zones, most collaboration happens during Pacific Time working hours. Candidates should be able to work a schedule aligned with the PT time zone.

Expectations (In this role, you will):

  • Collaborate with engineering leads and product owners to understand critical paths that require test coverage, for both existing and new functionality
  • Collaborate with engineering leads and product owners to integrate testing with technical CI/CD systems and the GTM (“go to market”) process; ultimately leveraging new test capabilities to drive quality for actual customers
  • Evaluate outcomes in a quantitative sense; can we improve our ability to find material issues before they hit customers in production

Experience (What we look for):

  • 5+ years of professional QA experience, with a significant portion in more automation-centric roles
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills enabling direct collaboration with business stakeholders at all levels in a distributed world
  • Strong technical skills implementing automated tests via modern tools like Postman, JMeter, etc.
  • Strong understanding of scripting languages such as Python or Typescript
  • API debugging tools such as Proxyman and the ability to investigate issues through logging platforms such as Rollbar or Datadog
  • Experience with implementing and / or using load testing tools
  • Experience with utilizing feature flags and A/B tests
  • Excellent documentation capabilities in order to develop and maintain test cases
  • Having experience with frontend and mobile automation frameworks is a plus
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus

Perks and Benefits (What we offer):

  • Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup
  • Multiple health benefit options
  • Responsible Time Off
  • 401(k) matching
  • Opportunities and support for major career growth
  • Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)

The salary range for this role is $155,000 - $180,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidate's skills, experience, and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation. 

Company overview (Who we are):

Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex.

Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

  • Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do
  • Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work
  • Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates
  • Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail
  • Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions, take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of what’s possible

Company Information

Location: Palo Alto, CA

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