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Who we are 

Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible to all. Every day, we explore, build, and iterate to create innovative financial products that improve the lives of our customers. Together, we’re creating the premier full-stack home equity platform to help current homeowners access their home wealth and aspiring ones realize their dream of homeownership. We recently raised a $120M Series C led by WestCap, and have raised over $170M overall from Andreessen Horowitz and other leading investors.

About the role

As a member of Quality Engineering at Point, you will drive the maintainability, reliability, and performance of the applications our customers and employees use on a daily basis. As one of Point’s SDET hires, you will be a key technical leader responsible for establishing the best practices and processes of our software automation initiatives, mentoring manual QA engineers, and strengthening our commitment to quality. 

You exemplify Point’s core values of transparency, alignment, and inclusion.

Your responsibilities

• Build a foundation for end-to-end test automation (API and UI). 
• Guide engineering teams to build, execute, and maintain our automation test suite.
• Identify non-functional requirements to improve the testability of our product.
• Build scripts, tooling, and automation to improve quality of life for developers and Quality engineers.
• Implement systems to make quality health metrics (testability, test health, test coverage, etc)  visible throughout the development lifecycle.
• Connect with customers to understand real-life usage, build test cases.
• Collaborate with developers, PM, and UX to ensure features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements.

About you

• Extensive experience in quality engineering (typically 8+ years).
• Experience in writing testing frameworks.
• Experience with automation (UI and Backend).
• Familiar with industry quality & usability practices.
• Formal training (e.g., CS degree) is helpful but not required.
• Highly proficient in Javascript (Ruby or other programming languages are helpful but not required).
• Proficient in writing functional automation (UI/API).
• Experience with developer tools like git, build tools, scripting, and IDEs.
• Good grasp of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with Cypress, Playwright, and Postman is a strong plus.
• Effectively communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner and ability to coordinate cross-team efforts.
• Systematic, structured approach to test planning and building test frameworks.
• Ability to learn quickly and demonstrate problem-solving skills.
• Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers.

Our benefits 

Generous health benefits

• We provide medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA). Point covers 99% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums.

Unlimited paid time off

• Recharge with unlimited paid time off and 10 company holidays. 

Flexible remote & onsite work

• Our teams work from many different locations and time zones. We support fully remote work and also have an amazing in-person environment in our downtown Palo Alto, CA HQ. 

Fully paid parental leave

• Point will true-up wages from state-applicable PFL earnings so that the employee’s total gross pay will be equivalent to 100% of their regular base pay, as well as two weeks of fully paid leave to be available after exhaustion of state PFL. 
• For employees in states without Paid Family Leave, Point will provide up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave. 
• In addition, all employees will receive 4 weeks of fully paid transition time. For four weeks after returning from parental leave, and following the use of all other paid leave benefits, you may work part-time, meaning two or three days per week, and receive 100% of regular base pay.

Financial wellness

• We provide 401K retirement plans for employees as well as guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage. Full-time employees have the opportunity to take ownership in the company through equity options.

Extra work/life benefits

• We provide monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, and a one-time home office reimbursement. 

Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn. 

Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location. Point has identified the expected annual base salary range for roles at this level based on market by tiers (Region | Location | Market Range):

• Tier 1 | San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, & Seattle | $147,100 - $198,900
• Tier 2 | Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego | $125,000 - $169,100
• Tier 3 | All other US metro areas | $117,300 - $158,700 

This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signal we received from our interviews coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors to determine final compensation.