Head of Quality Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)

Xapo Bank
Gibraltar
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)Experience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Lead the quality engineering function across a regulated crypto bank, defining the overall quality framework, coverage standards, and automated gates. Own AI-assisted testing tooling and the agentic QA pipeline to push more than 80% of release quality decisions to automated tooling within 12 months, while collaborating across SATs, Platform, backend, web, and mobile teams.

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Xapo Bank
Xapo Bank
2 months ago

Head of Quality Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)

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Job Summary

Lead the quality engineering function across a regulated crypto bank, defining the overall quality framework, coverage standards, and automated gates. Own AI-assisted testing tooling and the agentic QA pipeline to push more than 80% of release quality decisions to automated tooling within 12 months, while collaborating across SATs, Platform, backend, web, and mobile teams.
Location: Gibraltar
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Quality framework definition: own coverage standards (unit, service, integration, end-to-end), gate criteria, and the quality contribution to the function-level Definition of Done. Aligned with Head of Engineering on backend and Head of Frontend Engineering on client-side.
  • •Coverage baselines: define measurable coverage thresholds per service and per tribe, with trend visibility, and drive adoption across teams.
  • •Pre-release veto authority: hold and exercise the authority to block releases when quality gates are not met. Own the automated tooling that makes this veto self-triggering rather than dependent on a single person.
  • •AI-assisted test tooling: define and drive the framework for automated test generation, regression coverage, integration test tooling, and the agentic QA pipeline. You are the designer and driver; implementation is a cross-functional effort with Platform, backend, web, and mobile engineers.
  • •SAT enablement: produce the training, documentation, tooling, and templates that let Stream Aligned Team engineers do quality work themselves, without a separate QA function.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in software quality engineering, with a clear track record of owning quality frameworks across engineering organisations, not just managing a QA team or running manual test cycles.
  • •Hands-on experience building CI/CD quality gates at multiple levels: unit, service, integration, and end-to-end. You know where tests go in a pipeline and how to make them block a release reliably.
  • •Practical experience with AI-assisted test tooling, LLM-driven test generation, agentic QA pipelines, or equivalent. You don’t need to have shipped a production-grade system, but you need a genuine point of view and hands-on exposure.
  • •Demonstrated ability to raise quality standards without a reporting hierarchy, you have influenced engineering teams through better tooling, documentation, and frameworks, not through authority over people.
  • •Solid understanding of distributed, event-driven microservices architectures and what testing them well requires: contract testing, consumer-driven contracts, integration test data strategies.
Experience:8+ yearsFintechBankingCrypto
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CI/CDSASTDASTLLMAI toolingDependency scanning

Company Brief

Xapo Bank
Digital bank offering regulated banking services, crypto custody, and payment solutions for individuals and businesses, combining fiat banking with cryptocurrency custody and trading under a Gibraltar banking license.
Industry: Neobanking
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Founded: 2013
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