QA Team Lead

At Utila, we build the enterprise-grade platform that more than 300 global institutions run their digital asset operations on. Our technology secures $25B+ in monthly transaction volume and has protected over $200B to date. We’re backed by $50M in funding, and our customer base is growing fast.

The systems we build are mission-critical, so we hold them to the highest standard: precise, secure, and reliable. If you want to own hard problems end to end, work alongside people who raise the bar, and leave your mark on the future of financial technology, you’ll feel at home here.

How We Work

At Utila, we believe in extreme ownership. It’s our philosophy and mindset, how we operate. We Own It. We own our standard. Excellence here isn’t aspirational; it’s the standard. Quality, security, and reliability are non-negotiable when you build to protect financial assets. We hold every detail to the highest standard and never scale at the expense of quality.

Responsibilities:

As QA Team Lead, you’ll own quality across Utila’s product, for new features and for everything already in production. You’ll lead the QA team, set how we test and automate, and decide what “done” means before anything ships. It’s a system where a wrong result costs real money.

What You’ll Own

• The quality strategy for new features and the existing product: what must be tested, at which layer, and what “done” means before a release.
• The QA team: hiring, coaching, workload, and reviewing test plans and automation. You stay close enough to the product to challenge a weak plan.
• The automation direction, building on our existing Go unit, integration and end-to-end suites. You decide what belongs in automation, what stays exploratory, and what becomes a release gate.
• How the team uses AI in test design, failure analysis and automation, including the standard for checking that output before it affects a release.
  
  

• 5+ years in software QA, including 2+ years leading testers or owning quality for a product area.
• Experience with API testing tools and frameworks.
• A track record of setting test strategy as well as executing it.
• Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills. When something breaks, you find out why.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and experience applying them in testing and QA.
• Experience hiring and developing testers.
  
  

• Domain experience with digital assets.
• Hands-on work with automated end-to-end tests.
• Experience on a system where a wrong result costs real money or breaks a financial control.
• A product-oriented mindset: you think about how quality shows up for the customer.