📍 This hybrid role requires working from our London office in Fitzrovia at least once a week

If you've been looking to join a fast-growing startup, backed by the same investors as Stripe & Airbnb, with a mission to make a huge positive impact, then you’ve found the right place!

Our Mission

Our mission at Goodstack is to revolutionise how the world does good 🌎.

We empower companies to seamlessly integrate positive impact into what they do through a unified platform while supporting nonprofits in gaining access to cutting-edge technology and finding new funding streams.

Global brands, including LinkedIn, HSBC, OpenAI, Atlassian and Twilio - as well as thousands of nonprofits, including the Red Cross, Cancer Research, and Oxfam - use Goodstack to make a difference.

We are on a rapid growth trajectory. Just in 2024, we facilitated $3 billion in donations to good causes. But this is just the beginning. We want to become the world's leading platform that facilitates donations to the most individual nonprofits in the world. To achieve this, we need incredible people to help us on our journey - we need you 🫵

Join our Series A startup as SDET to help thousands of Nonprofits and many other users have a brilliant experience with our systems!

We’re looking for an exceptionally detailed, hands-on, process-driven SDET to enable and assist our teams in delivering software of the highest quality to customers to charities.
In this position, you’ll play a critical role in all the stages of the software development life cycle to ensure that our applications remain stable and that all of our users get a flawless experience when interacting with them. You’ll bring critical thinking to our teams so we can identify potential issues as early as possible, and you’ll help us validate that our code is thoroughly tested before it reaches our users.
If you have a QA background and love automating your tests or you have a software developer background who is passionate about testing and want to work for a company making a hugely positive societal impact, this could be the perfect role for you!

As SDET, your mission will be to:

• Key Responsibilities: What will the primary responsibilities and deliverables be?
  • Early identify potential issues with new functionality or designs
  • Document and manage test cases for all new developments within the team
  • Assist developers with the automation of test scenarios
  • Provide the team with new tools and methodologies to optimise the test automation
  • Integrate and monitor automatic quality gates within the CI/CD pipelines
• Team Collaboration: What teams or departments will this role work closely with?
  • Grants
  • Platform
  • Wide engineering

• Maintain great performance, adhere to our pillars, and deliver on schedule according to yearly and quarterly business objectives.

What success looks like in this role:

• At 3 months: understanding systems and making contributions.
• At 6 months: independent execution and automation impact.
• At 12 months: leadership, innovation, and elevating team-wide quality standards.

This Role is a perfect match for you if you have:

• A strong QA background with several years of automation.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Test Automation: Experience with tools like Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools like Artillery or k6 (preferred).
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation - exposure to GitHub Actions preferred.
• Exposure to Docker & AWS.
• Ability to review and contribute to test-related PRs on GitHub.
• Working in a continuous flow environment.
• Active participation in Kanban stand-ups, retrospectives, and refinement sessions.
• Writing clear bug reports, documentation, and test plans.

Bonus, but not required, if you have knowledge or love of:

• Designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Security testing fundamentals (OWASP Top 10, Sonarcloud).
• Writing custom GitHub Actions for test automation workflows.
• Chaos Engineering.

🇬🇧 What You Can Expect Upon Joining Our Team

💰 Salary reviews and share options
🌯 Tasty Tuesday! Office lunch is on the company
⚕️ Vitality - Private medical insurance - vision, dental & hearing coverage
🌞 £250 Brighten your day annual budget
🤓 £1000 Learning & Development annual budget
🎤 Paid days to attend conferences and level up your skills
📚 Goodstack library
🦸🏻 Paid days to volunteer for non-profit causes
🌴 25 days annual leave, plus paid public holidays
🥳 Paid day off on your birthday!
🧘🏽 Paid wellness leave
💙 Paid sick leave
🧓🏽 Pension
🚴🏾 UK cycle-to-work scheme
⚖️ Flexible working hours
🪁 Parental leave
🖥️ WFH budget upon joining
🏡 You're always welcome to pop in more often if you enjoy the buzz of being in the office. It's a warm, friendly space right in the heart of London
🙌 … and so much more

About us

Since 2017, Goodstack has been at the forefront of integrating social and environmental value into organisational purpose. In today's landscape, more businesses are recognising the necessity of embedding purpose into their operations to stay relevant.

To catalyse this transformation, we are constructing efficient global charitable rails accessible via an API globally.

Our vision is clear: To power purpose in every company and non-profit worldwide by leading the charge towards a future where doing good is not just an option but a fundamental principle of successful business shifting towards a better, purpose-driven world.

Let's do this! 💜

OUR PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 15+ nationalities across 5 continents 🌍 ! Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, essential to our success. We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A team that represents the world that we are trying to support is a wiser, more knowledgeable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourself and your special lemon twist to Goodstack to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.

Check out our Careers Page for more details!

Department

Engineering

Locations

London

Remote status

Hybrid

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