Senior Test Engineer

About source{d}

source{d} builds the open-source components that enable large-scale code analysis and machine learning on source code.

Our powerful tools can ingest all of the world’s public git repositories turning code into ASTs ready for machine learning and other analyses, all exposed through a flexible and friendly API.

We are paving the way for the future of the software development life cycle, where code becomes analyzable data powering the next generation of developer tools.

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Position

Engineering consists of five different teams that represent the architecture of our product:

• Applications (Scala, Go, Python, and Frontend tools): Builds CLI/Web applications combining ML research with our stack
• Machine Learning (C++ and Python): Performs R&D for Machine Learning on Source Code
• Data Retrieval (Scala and Go): Builds the technology that finds, fetches, stores and analyzes over +60M Git repositories
• Language Analysis (Go and another +15): Focused on Babelfish, the universal code parsing server
• Infrastructure (Go and Python): Manages a cluster of on-prem bare metal servers with Kubernetes and CoreOS, and GCP for user facing applications

Your qualification

source{d} is building a new QA team to work across the whole software stack. This involves testing command line tools, web applications and distributed systems. Systems under test are written mainly in Go, Python, Scala and JavaScript.

• Strong software engineering skills are required for this position. In particular, we expect testing code to attain the same quality level required for code under testing
• Strong programming experience in one, at least, language is required. The candidate should be willing to learn new languages such as Go and Python
• Notions of distributed systems are desirable. Kubernetes and Apache Spark are used intensively
• The role will involve improving continuous integration at source{d}, currently relying mainly on Travis CI and Appveyor. Experience with Jenkins is desirable but not required
• The role will involve assisting to improve the QA and release process

What we offer

• We go to conferences and other developer events!
• Open Source Days, every second Monday, you are encouraged to work on any OSS project you choose
• Flexible hours, set your own schedule that fits you
• Free books. We will buy any books that help you learn & grow
• If you choose to work from one of our offices, you will enjoy a comfortable and spacious environment
• Annual summer and winter Christmas parties and a hackathon retreat are held in Madrid and all team members are flown over for it
• We offer visa and relocation support for those wanting to work in the Madrid or San Francisco office