Quality Engineering Lead
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Expert
Tokyo, Japan
Hybrid
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership
About the job
Requirements
- Experience in software development or test automation as a software engineer, SET, SDET, QA Engineer, Quality Engineer, or similar.
- Experience designing and implementing tests for web applications, mobile applications, or backend systems.
- Knowledge and practical experience in test automation across multiple layers, including unit, integration, end-to-end, and API testing.
- Experience integrating automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to design and implement test infrastructure, development tools, or business systems using programming languages.
- Experience analyzing test coverage, defects, incidents, and release-quality data and using findings to drive improvements.
- Experience engaging multiple development teams or stakeholders to drive technical and organizational improvements.
- Experience managing an engineering or Quality Engineering team.
- Ability to communicate effectively in Japanese.
Responsibilities
- Develop the company-wide Quality Engineering strategy and build a development environment that maintains quality without reducing development speed, including development that uses AI agents.
- Design and implement automated test infrastructure, test data, quality checks in CI/CD, and continuous feedback mechanisms.
- Create an environment in which developers and AI agents can detect the impact of changes and quality issues and drive fixes.
- Continuously measure test coverage, test execution status, defect detection, defects escaping to production, and incidents, and make development speed and quality visible.
- Use data to identify quality challenges and bottlenecks and improve development processes, test strategy, architecture, and tools.
- Work with development teams to establish processes and operations that enable teams to improve quality autonomously in their daily work.
- Hands-on lead the selection, design, implementation, and review of test automation and quality infrastructure technologies.
- Manage Quality Engineering team members, including their development, goal setting, evaluation, and hiring.
- Work with Product Managers and development teams to define important product-quality attributes and promote the design of signals and metrics to measure them.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience using AI coding agents or generative AI in software development.
- Experience introducing AI agents for code generation, test generation, code review, or quality analysis.
- Experience improving quality or building test infrastructure for large-scale or high-traffic services.
- Experience designing test strategies across multiple platforms, including mobile applications.
- Experience defining, visualizing, and operating quality metrics or engineering metrics.
- Knowledge of Shift Left Testing, the test pyramid, continuous testing, or observability.
- Experience establishing QA as a responsibility of the entire development team rather than as a separate verification phase.
- Experience working with Product Managers to define product quality beyond functional requirements, including reliability, performance, and usability.
- Experience collaborating with global teams in English.
About the company
Tinder is an online dating platform that lets people create profiles and swipe on others to express interest, leading to matches and conversations. It operates on a freemium model where basic features are free and premium tiers (Plus, Gold, Platinum) plus in-app purchases unlock extras like unlimited swipes and global swiping with Passport. Its size and language coverage set it apart, with hundreds of millions of users across many countries and languages, and a strong brand presence. The goal is to help people meet and start conversations at scale by making dating easier and more accessible worldwide.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$750M
Headquarters
West Hollywood, California
Founded
2012
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- Tinder's 190-country scale gives unmatched liquidity for fast, local matching.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Mental Health Support
- Parental Leave
- Fertility Treatment Support
- Childcare Support
- Pet Insurance
- Hybrid Work Options