Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wander is a company focused on revolutionizing the short-term rental industry by enhancing the guest experience through technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test to lead the architectural vision and infrastructure for quality and testability across their engineering organization, ensuring fast and reliable code deployment.
Responsibilities
- Design & scale frameworks. Architect, build, and maintain robust, scalable automation frameworks for API, UI, mobile, and backend microservices
- Create internal tools, CLI utilities, and mock services that make it frictionless for product engineers, and the AI tools they work alongside, to write and run reliable tests
- Own the integration of automated testing, linting, security scanning, and performance testing into our deployment pipelines for safe, continuous delivery
- Build the test generation, coverage analysis, and pre-merge checks that let the org adopt AI coding tools aggressively without lowering the floor on quality
- Champion a culture where quality is a shared responsibility from the first day of design, not an afterthought
- Establish KPIs for system reliability, test coverage, and pipeline health
- Build dashboards that track and reduce flaky tests and deployment bottlenecks, and that distinguish velocity from churn so we can see whether speed reflects good planning or reactive firefighting
- Design infrastructure for advanced methodologies including chaos engineering, load and performance testing, and synthetic data generation
- Guide and mentor engineers across the organization on testing best practices, testability design patterns, clean code, and how to review and harden AI-generated code rather than rubber-stamp it
- Collaborate with Principal and Staff Engineers across Infrastructure and Product to ensure new architectures are inherently testable and observable
Skills
- Advanced proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js/TypeScript, Java)
- Deep experience with modern testing tools and libraries (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Appium, PyTest, or native integration test libraries)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI)
- Solid understanding of testing distributed systems, asynchronous event-driven architectures, and profiling database queries
- 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years operating at a Senior, Lead, or Staff level focused on automation infrastructure and tooling
- A product-engineering mindset. You treat the internal engineering team as your primary customer, focused on improving their velocity and their confidence
- Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical strategy and to influence engineering culture across multiple teams
- Experience building quality tooling for teams using AI coding assistants at scale: test scaffolding, coverage gating, automated review, and the guardrails that keep a high-velocity pipeline honest
Company Overview
Wander is a luxury rental company that provides smart home travel services. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://wander.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Wander has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.