Senior Engineer, Test and Automation (Remote, US)

Job Description

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com  to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

Renew Home is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test and Automation to join our team, and play a key role in establishing robust automation testing frameworks and culture within our organization.  

You will design and maintain the pipelines, quality gates, and automated checks that let our teams ship confidently and frequently across a 50+ service Nx monorepo. Beyond pipelines, you will build and expand automation frameworks that interact with thermostats, EVs and batteries, define testing standards, and embed a quality-first culture across a mission-driven engineering organization.

What You Will Do

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines — designing quality gates, test stages, deployment checks, and failure alerting across GitHub Actions workflows in a large Nx monorepo.
• Define and enforce pipeline standards: what runs on every PR, what gates a merge, what gates a deploy, and how test results are surfaced to engineers.
• Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks for integration and end-to-end testing of distributed systems spanning Python/FastAPI backends, React/Remix frontends, PostgreSQL, and event-driven infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
• Expand automated test coverage across the test pyramid — with particular focus on integration and E2E layers that are hardest to maintain at speed.
• Partner with software engineers to instrument their services with automated tests and wire those tests into CI.
• Analyze flaky tests, slow pipelines, and production incidents to drive continuous improvement in test coverage, pipeline reliability, and release confidence.
• Develop and maintain test plans, quality metrics, and documentation that keep teams aligned on coverage expectations.
• Advocate for automated testing and continuous quality improvement across the organization.
• Participate in on-call rotations and ensure strong operational standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience testing web-based applications in a professional engineering environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on ownership of CI/CD pipelines — not just using them, but designing, maintaining, and improving them (GitHub Actions strongly preferred).
• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python and SQL; comfort reading and contributing to TypeScript/React codebases.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks across frontend, backend, and database layers.
• Experience with web automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or BrowserStack.
• Deep understanding of test pyramid strategy and how to apply it in a fast-moving release cycle.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and independent execution skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Bonuses:
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools with an eye for secure, scalable and robust services.  You use coding agents, LLM-driven code review, and AI-powered debugging to move faster and raise the quality bar, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don't.
• Experience with our stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Remix, PostgreSQL, Nx, AWS (Lambda, S3, Aurora), GCP Pub/Sub, Prefect, dbt.
• Familiarity with Nx's affected-graph model and how to scope CI runs efficiently in a large monorepo.
• Experience with Playwright's component and E2E testing in a Remix or React application.
• Experience with pytest, pytest-asyncio, and database fixture patterns (no mocking — real DB).
• Experience with mobile testing.

Benefits

What You'll Get

• A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $160k - $200k. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.