Quality Assurance Engineer

Our Values

The principles behind every decision.

You won't be asked to ship something you don't believe in. Every product decision, every partnership, every campaign has to move education forward responsibly. If it doesn't, we don't do it. That means building ethically, treating institutions and students with respect, and never trading trust for growth. You'll be proud of what you work on here.

You won't wait around for someone to tell you what to do. You'll own outcomes, not tasks. When something needs fixing, you fix it. When you make a call, we have your back. Initiative is the default. No passengers, no finger-pointing. Just adults doing excellent work together.

You'll be able to do your best thinking here. Nectir is built by and for people who think differently, and neurodiversity, transparency, and compassion are our foundation. We design our workflows and communication to include every cognitive style. We give direct feedback kindly and assume good intent even when things get messy.

Built to support the work and the people doing it.

We're a distributed team that values output over office hours.

Fair pay that reflects your experience and the impact you'll make.

Share in what we're building. Every team member has a stake in Nectir's success.

You will not be a small cog in a big machine here. You'll be the one building the machine itself.

United States;
Brazil;
Canada

Full time

Remote

Engineering

• United States $135K – $152K Offers Equity
• Canada $111K – $129K Offers Equity
• Brazil $54K – $62K Offers Equity

We pay competitively based on role, experience, and impact, and we factor in local cost of labor when setting ranges. The ranges posted here reflects our country bands overall; where you land within it depends on your specific location's market rate for this role, along with your experience and skill level.

Nectir is the secure AI infrastructure purpose-built for schools. Nectir AI provides 24/7 personalized learning support grounded in course content, without compromising trust, outcomes, or academic integrity. Nectir AI can be integrated into existing Learning Management Systems and is fully FERPA- and SOC 2-compliant. Trusted by 80,000 students across 100+ campuses, Nectir is backed by independent, peer-reviewed research demonstrating a 7.5% campus wide GPA increase.

Nectir has raised $18.5M from leading investors including Rethink Impact, Long Journey Ventures, and Entrada Ventures.

Nectir's QA process has outgrown the team built to run it, and we're investing in real capacity here as we scale. We're hiring an engineer who can build the automation that turns a ~60-minute manual QA pass into a 10-15 minute one, and who thinks about code review and release safety like an engineer, not a checklist. You'll work day-to-day with our current QA engineer as your closest collaborator, and report to our engineering leadership as we figure out where this role lands long-term;

likely evolving toward software reliability as it grows.

QA & Test Automation

• Evaluate and implement automated testing tools (e.g., Playwright-based frameworks, UI regression tools like Meticulous) to cut QA turnaround time.
• Write and maintain your own test scripts and automated checks, rather than relying on manual test passes.
• Take ownership of high-volume, repetitive QA work (like dependency/package upgrade PRs) so the team isn't bottlenecked on a single reviewer.

PR Queue & Developer Collaboration

• Own visibility into the open PR queue — track how long PRs sit before and during QA, and flag where things are getting stuck.
• Build a clear handoff process between Dev and QA (tagging, status, communication) so PRs move faster in both directions.
• Proactively ask developers for what QA needs (screenshots, context, reproduction steps) instead of absorbing the delay silently.

Release Reliability

• Help design phased, contained release rollouts that limit the blast radius of…