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Our Values

The principles behind every decision.

Integrity of Impact

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.

Radical Ownership

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.

Psychological Safety & Inclusion

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.

Benefits and Perks

Built to support the work and the people doing it.

Work From Anywhere

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

Competitive Compensation

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

Equity

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

Growth That's Real

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

Open RolesQuality Assurance EngineerLocation

United States; Brazil; Canada

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• 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.

About Nectir

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

About The Role

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.

What You'll Do

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 a bad deploy, beyond what feature flags alone can do.
• Grow into owning more of our release/rollout process as the role expands in an SRE direction.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• An engineering background; you've written and shipped code, not just executed test cases. This isn't a traditional manual-QA role.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar) in a real production environment.
• Comfortable pushing back, including with senior engineers, when a process or PR isn't ready to ship.
• Product-first instincts: you ask "what are we actually trying to achieve" before reaching for a technical or infrastructure solution.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with release engineering, phased rollouts, or canary deployments
• Experience evaluating or standing up UI regression testing tools
• Interest in growing into a broader software reliability engineering role over time
• Background at a small, fast-moving team where you wore more than one hat

Success Metrics

• Cut average QA pass time from ~60 minutes to 10-15 minutes
• Independently own and clear the dependency/package-upgrade PR queue within your first month
• Stand up full visibility into PR queue age, with a working tagging/handoff system between Dev and QA
• Evaluate and implement at least one automated front-end/UI regression tool

Working at Nectir

We're a startup, which means the work moves fast, but the impact is real. You will not be a small cog in a big machine here, but the one building the machine itself.

This is a full-time, remote position, open to candidates anywhere in the US or Latin America. You should be comfortable working with a significant overlap with US business hours.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• 401k with employer match
• Equity (stock options)
• Flexible, remote-first work environment

Compensation Range: $54K - $152K

“Before joining Nectir, I worked as a teacher, so I saw firsthand how much students can thrive when they have the right support at the right moment, and how difficult it can be for educators to provide that kind of personalized help for everyone all the time. That’s a big part of why Nectir resonated with me. We’re building something that doesn’t just add more technology to education, but actually helps make learning more accessible, more empowering, and more human. What I love most about working here is being part of a team that genuinely believes education can be better for students, instructors, and institutions, and is actively building that future every day. As someone who loves exploring new places and perspectives, it feels especially meaningful to be part of a company that’s helping expand what’s possible for learners everywhere.”

Maycon Santos, Head of Security and Compliance Based in Vancouver, Canada