Lead SDET

✨ Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.

✨ Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.

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✨ Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.

✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in the U.S., while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.

As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Point, you will be a technical leader within the Quality Engineering organization, driving the design, scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our quality engineering solutions across multiple product areas. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to embed quality into every stage of software development—from architecture and implementation to deployment and production monitoring.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on building scalable automation frameworks, improving developer productivity, and driving modern quality engineering practices. You will lead cross-team quality initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and leverage AI-powered testing solutions to enhance testing, reduce production risk, and help engineering teams deliver high-quality software with confidence.

• Design, build, and evolve scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, backend services, and end-to-end testing.

• Drive adoption of modern testing practices, including API, integration, component, contract, and risk-based testing, to reduce test execution time and accelerate engineering feedback cycles.

• Build reusable automation libraries, tooling, and workflows that improve developer productivity and automation reliability.

• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to improve application testability, reliability, and overall product quality.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and continuously improve test execution speed, stability, and coverage.

• Define, track and analyze quality metrics, automation health, defect trends, and production issues to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Leverage AI-powered testing solutions to improve test generation, maintenance, prioritization, and engineering efficiency.

• Lead cross-team quality initiatives, providing technical guidance and promoting quality engineering best practices.

• Participate in design and code reviews, providing guidance to improve application quality, testability, and maintainability.

• Mentor and coach Quality Engineers and SDETs through technical guidance, code reviews, and automation best practices.

• Collaborate with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, reliable product releases.

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, with extensive hands-on experience in test