Senior Manager, Quality Engineering at Sardine

Job description

Who we are: Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products. Our culture: • We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation. • We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule. • We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you're located, and you'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in. So while we love the "coffee shop today, mountains tomorrow" life, this isn't a passport-optional, work-from-anywhere-on-Earth kind of remote - think flexible within your country, not borderless. Location: • Remote - United States About the Role As we grow into banks and expand globally, quality is becoming increasingly important. We're looking for a Senior Manager, Quality Engineering to own quality across our platform and our customer-facing delivery. You will lead a globally distributed QA team across web, mobile, and manual testing, and set the standards, strategy, and governance that make our quality credible to banks: documented test plans, coverage metrics, release gates, and audit-ready evidence. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Professional Services, and our customers to make sure every product change and every bank integration is correct, well-documented, and formally accepted. What you'll be doing • Own end-to-end QA strategy across the platform and customer-facing delivery, spanning a globally distributed team of QA engineers. • Establish and maintain quality governance appropriate for regulated financial institutions: test strategy standards, coverage metrics, release criteria, and audit-ready evidence. • Own incident response for quality-related issues: triage, root cause, future prevention, and clear post-incident communication. • Partner with engineers to strengthen test automation, CI/release gating, and regression coverage for a real-time, high-throughput platform. • Partner with Professional Services and Post-Sales team to support UAT, structured acceptance testing, and integration validation for bank and enterprise deployments. • Play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture, ensuring high quality standards are upheld across the organization. What you'll need • 8+ years in software quality, with 2+ years managing QA or Quality Engineering teams. • Experience owning quality for a regulated domain like banking, payments, or fintech. Familiar with audit, UAT, and documented test governance. • A strong quality engineering mindset: test automation, CI/CD gating, and coverage measurement, balanced with structured manual and exploratory testing. • Hands on experience building test automation using Cypress or similar tools • A track record of building high-performing, distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures. • A metrics-driven approach: comfortable defining and reporting on quality KPIs Benefits we offer: • Generous compensation in cash and equity • Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested • Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Cana