Coinspaid Dev is seeking a Principal QA Engineer to own and develop the company-wide Quality Engineering system. This is a senior individual contributor role, working primarily through QA Technical Leads and Senior QA Engineers while partnering with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and DevOps/SRE teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the Quality Engineering strategy, operating model, and improvement roadmap across the company.
  • Assess QA maturity, identify systemic bottlenecks, and prioritize improvements with broad impact.
  • Define standards for test architecture, coverage, quality evidence, testability, observability, release readiness, and production validation.
  • Improve QA processes and embed shift-left practices and risk-based quality controls throughout the SDLC.
  • Guide QA tooling and automation architecture, contributing hands-on through code, prototypes, and reviews.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, and lead successful company-wide improvements.
  • Lead investigations and root-cause analysis for critical incidents and systemic quality problems.
  • Establish quality metrics and develop QA Technical Leads as domain-level technical owners.

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering, including technical leadership across teams or domains.
  • Experience defining QA strategy, standards, or large-scale transformations with measurable results.
  • Strong knowledge of risk-based testing, coverage strategy, shift-left, quality gates, testability, release readiness, and production quality signals.
  • Strong programming experience and ability to design and contribute to scalable UI and backend automation. Python is preferred; Go, Node.js, or other relevant stacks are also welcome.
  • Experience with distributed backend systems, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, and third-party integrations.
  • Experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud-native or GitOps environments, and observability tools.
  • Ability to define quality metrics, communicate technical risks, and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Research-driven approach, experience evaluating technologies, and active, responsible use of AI tools.
  • Good spoken and written English and Russian.

Nice to have: Experience in fintech, crypto, payments, compliance, or other regulated domains; Kafka, MQ, Debezium, ledger-like systems, eventual consistency, and event-driven architecture; contract, performance, load, resilience, or reliability testing.

Work and benefits: Fully remote work from almost anywhere, optional offices and relocation support, flexible async-friendly environment, learning and language budgets, medical or mental health support, a flexible benefits budget of up to €230/month, and team events.