Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our early-stage FinTech!

We're looking for an enthusiastic and driven Software Developer in Test to join our dynamic and growing team. At Navro, we value diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels supported and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. 

At Navro, we're not just offering a job -  we're offering an adventure alongside a great team.

Who we are

We are transforming payments for global platforms and e-commerce businesses. As the world’s first payments curation platform, we simplify cross-border transactions by uniting best-in-class infrastructure into a seamless ecosystem, enabling businesses to scale and operate effortlessly across borders.

Our platform empowers businesses to pay international workforces, sellers, and suppliers quickly and reliably while optimising costs and enhancing payment experiences. By combining innovation with compliance and scalability, we are shaping the future of payments for modern global businesses and their ecosystems.

We are building a workplace that encourages growth, development, and fun. Working in a startup can be both rewarding and challenging, we’ll be with you throughout the highs and lows as one team. We need people who have passion, resilience, and willingness to find solutions, not just problems, and work well within our global team of almost 30 nationalities.

The role

As a Senior SDET, you will be responsible for designing, co-developing, and automating software test plans and test cases to ensure the quality and reliability of our services. You will drive continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospection, and innovation, keeping our testing processes ahead of the curve.

Our backend is developed predominantly on Java with SpringBoot and SpringCloud, and our frontend in Next.JS. We are deploying to K8S with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD on AWS, but remain somewhat cloud agnostic as we are pursuing a multi-cloud strategy.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you:

• Demonstrate strong leadership skills to mentor and guide team members in testing methodologies and best practices
• Must have strong programming skills with a solid knowledge of Java and ideally JS
• Must have knowledge of software testing methodologies like Behavior-Driven Development and testing principles, such as functional testing, component testing, integration testing, regression testing, and performance testing
• Have practical experience with Contract Testing using Pact
• Are very familiar with performance & load testing tools.
• Be an advocate of the need to engage testing early in the feature definition process
• Can mentor engineering teams, assist them by identifying testing goals and needs, and drive a culture of knowledge sharing in order to close knowledge gaps.
• Can help foster an environment of psychological safety that enables team members to thrive. This is very important to us, as we are a highly diverse group made up of people from many different ethnicities, religious beliefs, and gender identities
• Experience in Payments or a FinTech industry would be nice to have but not a strong requirement

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to mentor and guide team members 
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with the capacity to work both  independently and collaboratively
• High degree of empathy and situational awareness

You may not possess every single required skill listed, and that's perfectly fine. If you have most of them, along with grit, passion, a desire to learn quickly, and the willingness to get stuck in, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

As part of this role, you will receive the following:

• You will enjoy 26 days of annual leave (excluding Bank holidays)
• Volunteering and Compassionate leave
• Private Healthcare 
• Pension Scheme
• Company Options Scheme
• Team socials and annual company off-sites 
• Comprehensive, interactive & engaging Training - Leadership, Communication and Presentation Skills, Behavioural Profiling, Conflict Management, etc
• Career frameworks
• Working remotely with cross-cultural teams; whilst we love to have you in the coworking space for occasional workshops and team collaboration, you mostly will be working remotely 
• Flexibility surrounding other commitments; within your team we will work around child-care or other appointments you have. We just ask for advance notice!
• Working in a diverse and inclusive environment where we ensure that our people thrive

Navro does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Navro will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to  on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.