Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - Immigration AI

Role Summary

Filevine's Immigration AI team owns the platform immigration practices use to prepare and manage their clients' cases. The team is expanding the product to deliver the capabilities our customers are asking for, and is building out both the engineering foundation and the feature set to get there.

We are looking for a senior-level SDET to own quality across this work. The ideal engineer is equally at home driving rigorous backend and API testing, validating customer-facing applications, and inventing new approaches to test systems that resist conventional, UI-driven automation. This is a backend-leaning, tooling-heavy role for an engineer who wants to solve hard testing problems and raise the quality bar for the entire team, not simply execute existing test plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgment by being responsible for
• Writing and identifying test cases
• Setting up of test environments
• Designing test plans
• Developing test cases/scenarios based on usage cases
• Executing manual and automated tests
• Assisting in the design and implementation of automated test frameworks
• Performing expert code reviews
• Identifying opportunities for automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, UI, etc)
• Work within the assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers.
• Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences on usability and serviceability and suggested changes
• Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline
• Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing

Requirements

• 8+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineer
• Expert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java
• Complete understanding of the application development life cycle
• Expert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLC
• Expert experience testing REST web services
• Expert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testing
• Ability to design and build custom test tooling and harnesses for systems that are difficult to exercise through conventional automation, including asynchronous and event-driven services
• Practical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challenges
• Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques
• Expert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mocking
• Expert understanding of source control systems and CI/CD Pipelines
• B.S. or M.S in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Work Location Expectation: Remote or option to be hybrid/in-office in one the following locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Salt Lake City

Benefits

Cool Company Benefits

• A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
• Short & long-term disability
• Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
• Top-of-the-line company swag

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About the Company

About Filevine

Filevine is changing the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients. As the leading legal operating system, Filevine is dedicated to empowering organizations with tools to simplify and elevate complex, high-stakes legal work. Powering everything from document and case management to timekeeping, billing and business analytics, over 3,400 law firms and legal teams use Filevine daily to deliver excellence.

With these groundbreaking AI features, Filevine is empowering law firms and legal teams to deliver excellence to their clients with unprecedented speed and efficiency.