About Seed 

Seed is an innovative financial exchange focused on cryptocurrency and emerging markets. Through its regulated subsidiaries, Seed operates a physical spot market, a regulated derivatives exchange and an innovative settlement system for institutional trading. A fast-growing company, Seed was founded in late 2015 and has since raised over $20m in venture financing to build out the future of trading. Seed recently sold a subsidiary to Dough, Inc., a major Chicago trading group. Seed’s founders, having met at MIT, have been highlighted as some of Chicago’s ’20 in Their 20s’. 

The Seed Culture 

All Seed employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles: 

• Independence - an ability to work alone. There is no micromanaging here. Join Seed, pitch ideas and shape the work you do. You will be given responsibility from day one. 
• Vision - an ability to see the broader picture. We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. Seeing where we fit in is critical in making it a reality. 
• Positivity - a good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. 
• Ambition - an ability and a passion for learning and getting things done. We will champion you, challenge you, and push you to achieve your best – and we expect the same in return. 
• Empathy - an ability to understand the customer. We do not build products for industry, but with industry. Learn our markets and speak to our end-users. 
• Adaptability - an ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure. 

Benefits Offered 

We believe that the best way to succeed is by having a happy, motivated and healthy team. We offer the following benefits: 

• Healthcare Insurance: Seed currently covers roughly 75% of employee premiums. By the end of the year, Seed will cover 100% of employee’s premiums and contribute to dependents. 
• Vision Insurance 
• Dental Insurance 
• Maternity & Paternity leave 
• Visa sponsorship 
• Free Gym 
• Life insurance 
• Flexible work schedule 

Investing in Our Employees and Broader Community

We want Seed to have a positive mark on our every employee and our community at large: 

• Regular Team Building Activities: we like to ‘play’ as a team from ping pong competitions, escape rooms, boat trips and drinks on rooftops. 
• Continued development and sponsorship of tuition: we invest in our people, paying for specific tuition and conferences as well as ‘study leave’. We have team members preparing for the bar, developers attending conferences and members of our compliance group taking additional qualifications. 
• Creating a work environment for all: we think it is important to continuously evaluate our workplace ethos to ensure it is a place everyone wants to work and can thrive in. For example, we have developed unconscious bias training for our hiring team. 
• Seed giving back: Seed has created a free transportation for unemployed Chicagoans to assist them in their search for jobs. We also sponsor different projects, including the arts. 

About the Role

The Software Engineer in Test (SET) would serve as an independent testing entity. From a process perspective, this person will not only build and operate automated and efficient software testing scripts that will enable the SET to serve as a gate keeper for all systems environments. By regulating, synchronizing, and publishing the specific states of each systems environment, the SET will thoughtfully order changes in a way that will minimize risk while carefully managing test environments in order to greatly lower overall spend on cloud services. The core outputs of this role are speed, organization, efficiency, risk management and cost reduction.
Role Responsibilities

• Develop automated tests for existing features alongside engineers
• Work closely with developers and build testing for new features during development
• Design and build tools and infrastructure to help our engineering teams measure and improve the quality in our product development pipeline
• Build code coverage, code quality, and static analysis tools to detect problems early
• Help us accelerate our CI/CD pipeline and define the quality criteria in each phase
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to establish the technical vision for test frameworks and automation
• Actively participate in design reviews and speak for testability and reliability

Role Requirements

• Candidates must have a minimum of five to seven years of progressive experience in a QA engineering role with a focus in financial systems preferably centered around trading and exchange transaction processing technology utilizing agile development
• Core development languages used include but are not limited to C++ and JavaScript
• Experience managing cloud resources
• Experience with Selenium, Cypress, Jest, Mocha, or similar testing frameworks
• Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management 
• Work in Chicago
• Entrepreneurial and independent