Job Description
Elite is the trusted automation platform for law firm operations across most of the world’s largest and most successful law firms. Elite has guided firms through every technology shift and today delivers the only cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies financial, invoice, time, and data management into a single system of action. With embedded AI, predictive analytics, and integrated payments, Elite’s products enable firms to shorten billing cycles, reduce write-offs, and unlock firm-wide insights, making financial operations the foundation for law firm innovation and growth. Learn more at elite.com.
Position Overview
The Senior Software Test Engineer is a technical leader who drives engineering quality, system reliability, and delivery excellence across the platform. This role goes beyond traditional testing execution and focuses on designing scalable, high-quality software systems through deep collaboration with engineering, architecture, product, and infrastructure teams.
The ideal candidate is both a strategic thinker and a hands-on technical contributor, capable of influencing system-level design decisions while actively contributing production-ready code, automation frameworks, and operational best practices. This role plays a critical part in strengthening CI/CD maturity, observability, testing discipline, and overall engineering rigor across cross-functional initiatives.
Work Arrangement: Remote
This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to system and component‑level architecture design, collaborating with engineers and architects to evaluate options and make sound technical decisions.
- Own end‑to‑end technical execution of key initiatives, from design through delivery, proactively identifying and mitigating risks and dependencies.
- Lead cross-team initiatives and influence platform-level decisions
- Uphold high engineering standards by actively participating in code reviews and applying best practices in CI/CD, testing, observability, and DevOps.
- Partner closely with Product, UX, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that meet both functional and non‑functional requirements.
- Lead complex incident response and technical root cause analysis, including on-call participation
- Mentor and support engineers, fostering strong engineering judgment, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Remain deeply hands‑on, contributing high‑quality, production‑ready code to critical components and complex problem areas.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, applying strong diagnostic and problem‑solving skills.
- Support alignment between product priorities and technical execution, contributing to predictable, high‑quality delivery.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 9–12 years of professional software development experience
- Expert-level knowledge of software architecture and system design
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, cloud-based systems
- Proven experience writing test automation at every level to confirm application functionality and performance goals are met
- Experience working in modern cloud environments (Azure preferred), with good design pattern familiarity with web application / service based SaaS architecture
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder influence skills
- Ability to drive change across complex technical environments
- Ability to travel up <10% as business needs require
- Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work
- Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($173,000 - $192,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Global Parental Leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee Discount Program
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma .
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
