Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Automation

at Flowhub

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Automation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $145,000 - $175,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, JUnit, Kubernetes, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Boston, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer driving quality strategy and automation for cannabis retail solutions. Leading testing and quality initiatives within a collaborative engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Strategy for the Flowhub Platform: Own and define the comprehensive testing strategy for end-to-end pipelines, critical data flows, and services.
• Define and Drive Long-Term Quality Strategy: Define and drive the long-term automation strategy that significantly improves quality metrics, platform integrity, and test scalability across multiple engineering teams.
• Tooling & Infrastructure Influence: Own the selection and integration of tools and platforms that support scalable test automation, data validation, Continuous Training (CT), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Champion Best Practices and Systemic Improvement: Define and enforce standards for quality across all systems, and systematically raise the engineering bar by proactively identifying and resolving systemic flaws in testing architecture, quality processes, and tooling.
• Measure & Improve Quality: Define and track quality metrics such as test coverage, test flakiness, and reliability, linking quality work to measurable business outcomes.
• Lead Through Collaboration and Mentorship: Influence Engineering and Platform teams to adopt a quality-driven approach in their design and implementation, and mentor engineers across collaborating teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years in software development and/or test automation, with at least 3 years leading complex, distributed system testing.
• A natural team player and Culture Ambassador who operates with humility, actively collaborates across boundaries, and prioritizes the success of FlowHub's mission above all else.
• Strong programming experience with the ability to design and write reusable, scalable test frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead testing efforts for large-scale, backend or platform systems, ideally including microservices or cloud-based architectures.
• Deep understanding of test design methodologies, CI/CD practices, and test automation at scale.
• Experience with test frameworks and tools such as PyTest, JUnit, or equivalent, and experience with performance testing of large-scale systems.
• Skilled in driving multi-functional quality programs and influencing engineering architecture and tooling.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes); Experience in DevOps work.

Benefits

• Equity