{"id":863487,"url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-software-engineer-test","title":"Software Engineer, Test","company":{"id":695243,"name":"Skip","domain":"skipwithjoy.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/skipwithjoy","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":46,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0.9,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":160000,"max":210000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":210000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Appium","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Selenium","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Wi-Fi","optional":false},{"name":"XCUITest","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-03-18T20:35:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-03-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T18:39:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":188,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":188},"description":"Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement.\nMovement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.\nSkip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for an engineer who can own software quality end-to-end, from a user unboxing the device for the first time to data syncing reliably on Google Cloud. You'll operate across web, mobile, backend API, and device/IoT layers in a fast-moving sprint cycle where 1-2 engineers need to punch far above their weight.\nThis is a hands-on IC role. You'll build the automation infrastructure that makes scaling our test suite possible, design mock environments, and collaborate closely with firmware, app, and cloud engineers to bridge the gap between unit-level coverage and full regression suites.\nWhat You'll Own\nDesign and execute end-to-end test plans covering the full user journey - device unboxing, app onboarding, BLE pairing, charging modes, and cloud data sync\n\nParticipate in EVT/DVT hardware-software integration testing and Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) test planning\n\nBuild and maintain automation frameworks spanning web (Selenium), mobile (Appium), and backend API layers\n\nDevelop and manage mock environments, test data pipelines, and sandbox configurations to isolate and reproduce issues reliably\n\nWrite and own unit and integration test suites in collaboration with firmware and SW engineers to close coverage gaps ahead of scale\n\nIdentify and document edge cases systematically: network unavailability, BLE/WiFi failure modes, data sync retry logic, storage-full conditions, server errors, and app crashes\n\nVerify data correctness across the full stack - on-device, app, and GCP endpoints\n\nDefine and track test metrics; flag release risks early in each sprint cycle\n\nWear prototypes several hours a week for on-body testing, data collection, and feedback\n\nBasic Qualifications\n5+ years of software testing experience in a product company, ideally with consumer devices or IoT\n\nAbility to test e2e features across hardware device, mobile app, firmware, backend/cloud systems\n\nStrong programming and scripting fundamentals - Python and JavaScript/TypeScript required\n\nExperience with XCUITest(iOS), espresso(Android) and other native mobile test automation frameworks\n\nExperience designing and executing API test automation (REST/GraphQL)\n\nAbility to independently define test strategies from scratch - no pre-built QA infrastructure to lean on\n\nFamiliarity with HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) test setups or firmware-level testing at EVT/DVT stages\n\nDemonstrated skill in creating edge-case scenarios and thinking adversarially about user flows\n\nExperience building and maintaining mock services, test environments, and synthetic test data\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into release workflows\n\nComfortable working across mobile (iOS/Android) and cloud-connected system testing\n\nAbility to work from our Bay Area office 3 days/week\n\nBonus Points\nBackground testing BLE, WiFi, or other wireless protocols in consumer devices\n\nExperience with motor control, robotics, or powered consumer electronics (drones, e-bikes, powered prosthetics, etc.)\n\nExperience writing or reviewing infrastructure-as-code for test environments\n\nStrong opinions about sprint velocity and what actually slows teams down\n\nPersonal motivation to improve human movement or experience with adaptive sports/assistive tech\n\nSense of humour, tolerant of Aussie & Canadian spelling\n\nSkip is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.\nAny and all offers of employment extended by Skip are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4643,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Consumer Goods"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T11:41:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.164,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":188,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":210000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-software-engineer-test","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-software-engineer-test.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T20:02:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}