Associate, SDET (Software Development Engineer In Test)
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As an Associate SDET at Galaxy Digital, you'll embed within a product team to raise the bar for quality engineering across institutional-grade platforms that move real crypto and fiat value. You'll design automation strategies, influence architecture for testability, and drive reliability across APIs, backend services, web and mobile UI, and blockchain-integrated components. Your work will have outsized impact on small, high-performing teams.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks and suites for APIs, backend services, web and mobile UI (Android/iOS), and blockchain-integrated components
- Define and drive the quality strategy for your product team, including test planning, coverage analysis, risk assessment, and release readiness
- Partner closely with developers, DevOps, and product managers to shift quality left and influence system design for testability
- Analyze test results, production incidents, and system behavior to identify patterns and drive systemic improvements
- Build and maintain CI/CD-integrated test pipelines that give teams fast, reliable feedback
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate test creation, code analysis, and automation workflows
- Contribute to performance testing, security validation, and observability practices
- Mentor other engineers on testing practices, code quality, and automation design
What you bring
- 5+ years of experience in quality engineering or software development in test, with meaningful ownership of automation strategy and execution
- Strong programming skills in Python (primary) or similar languages such as JavaScript, Java, or Go
- Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks such as Pytest, Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright, or Postman/Newman
- Deep understanding of API testing, microservices architectures, and distributed systems
- Experience with Git, GitHub workflows, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), and issue tracking (JIRA)
- Strong debugging and analytical skills with comfort working with logs, metrics, and traces using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus
- Experience working in Agile environments with close collaboration across engineering and product
- Clear, proactive communication where you surface risks, share context, and keep people aligned
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as LLM-based coding assistants to accelerate engineering work, with an eagerness to push those practices further
Nice to have
- Experience in financial services, fintech, or digital assets and crypto
- Familiarity with blockchain APIs, wallets, smart contracts, or on-chain data
- Experience with Web3 testing tools such as Hardhat, Brownie, or Foundry
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Knowledge of contract testing (Pact), test data management, or service virtualization
- Performance or security testing experience using tools like Locust, k6, or OWASP
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team capabilities
- Experience building, testing, or working with AI agents and agentic workflows
What we offer
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and eligible dependents
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
- Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry
- Mumbai office with flexibility for remote work within India
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers on-chain infrastructure for institutions across trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, while developing and operating data center infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads. Galaxy is headquartered in New York City with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Galaxy has 38 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 14 in Engineering, 8 in Legal & Compliance and 5 in Operations. 11% are fully remote, most of the rest in India and the US. 15 were posted in the last 7 days.
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