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You will partner closely with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware, and mechanical teams to understand how the system is expected to behave, identify meaningful risks, and turn ambiguous operational requirements into practical test plans and reliable validation processes.\nWe are looking for someone who is deeply hands-on, enjoys investigating complex problems, and takes ownership from planning through release and production support. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers across disciplines while helping raise the quality, reliability, testability, and maintainability of our software.\nWhat you’ll do\nCreate and execute test strategies for complex product capabilities spanning user interfaces, backend services, cloud infrastructure, external integrations, and robot-adjacent systems.\nDevelop detailed test plans based on product requirements, technical designs, operational workflows, system dependencies, and potential failure modes.\nOwn and coordinate release checkout, including defining readiness criteria, validating critical workflows, documenting results, identifying blockers, and supporting go or no-go decisions.\nBuild and maintain automated tests for APIs, backend services, web applications, integrations, and end-to-end operational workflows.\nPartner directly with product, culinary, and operations teams to understand real-world workflows, clarify requirements, and identify risks before release.\nTest software for configuring, observing, and managing kitchen operations, including order intake, menus, recipes, tasks, alerts, and performance visibility.\nValidate integrations with delivery and commerce platforms, including order intake, menu synchronization, order-state communication, retries, duplicate events, and partial failures.\nTest operator-facing and robot-adjacent interfaces used in physical production environments.\nWork alongside firmware and robotics engineers to validate cohesive system behavior across software and hardware boundaries.\nHelp improve system testability by contributing to simulation environments, mocked services, test data, diagnostic tooling, and repeatable test environments.\nPerform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.\nOwn quality activities through rollout and production support, including validation, observability, issue reproduction, early triage, and iterative improvement.\nParticipate in an on-call or support rotation focused on early issue investigation, evidence collection, initial classification, and routing to the appropriate engineering team.\nWork with engineers to improve logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and other diagnostic capabilities needed to validate and troubleshoot important workflows.\nParticipate in design reviews, release reviews, incident reviews, and technical discussions to identify quality risks and improve software reliability.\nShare knowledge with teammates and contribute to engineering and quality best practices.\nWhat we are looking for\n7+ years of software quality, test engineering, or related experience, including ownership of complex test strategies or quality initiatives across multiple components.\nDeep experience creating and executing test plans for production software.\nStrong experience with test automation using one or more programming languages.\nExperience testing APIs, backend services, web applications, databases, integrations, and 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In the last 5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030.\nChanging the restaurant industry: You’ll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery. \nCollaborative environment: You will receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers, helping you to learn, grow and achieve your goals, and you’ll work closely with other teams to ensure our customer’s success.\nWhat else you need to know\nThis role is based in our Los Angeles office. As a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. 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