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title: 'QA Engineer at pod network'
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last_seen: '2026-09-13'
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# QA Engineer at pod network

- **Company:** pod network
- **Location:** United Kingdom / Europe / Turkey / Eastern Europe / South Africa / United Arab Emirates / Gulf Region / India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pod-network/60fffc28-e1ed-45f9-aca0-b38f6535df5b

## Job description

Pod Network is building a next-generation decentralized exchange focused on fairness, performance, and user experience. Under the hood, pod is powered by a low-latency distributed system that handles transactions, validator communication, execution, receipts, APIs, and client-facing flows.

As we ship new versions of pod, we need someone to test the actual software carefully: run it, use it, break it, compare behavior across versions, verify fixes, and make sure critical flows work before they reach users.

About the Role :

We’re looking for a QA Engineer to own manual and automated testing for pod releases.

This is primarily a hands-on QA role. You’ll test new features and new versions of pod directly: running local and staging environments, submitting transactions, checking API responses, verifying receipts and state changes, testing CLI and client flows, reproducing bugs, and confirming that fixes work.

You’ll work closely with engineers to understand what changed in each release, define the right test cases, and build a practical release checklist. Over time, you’ll also automate the repeated end-to-end checks that should run before every release.

What You’ll Do :

- Manually test new pod features and releases before they ship. This is the core of the role.
- Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected behavior, actual behavior, logs, screenshots, or other useful context.
- Communicate with the right person on the team to help bugs get fixed, verified, and shipped to production.
- Write automated tests for repeated checks, including end-to-end scripts and headless browser tests.

Qualifications :

- Experience in QA, software testing, release testing, or a similar role.
- Strong manual testing skills, with the ability to create practical test cases, reproduce bugs, and document issues clearly.
- Comfortable testing technical software such as APIs, CLIs, backend services, infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
- Comfortable using command-line tools, reading logs, running scripts, and working in local or staging environments.
- Some experience with automated testing, scripting, smoke tests, regression tests, or end-to-end tests.
- Strong ownership of release quality: you keep testing until the behavior is actually understood.

Nice to have :

- Experience with blockchain systems, exchanges, trading systems, fintech products, databases, or distributed systems.
- Experience with Docker, CI, Kubernetes, cloud environments, or API testing tools.
- Experience writing scripts or tests in Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Bash.
- Familiarity with wallets, transactions, RPC APIs, validators, smart contracts, or Ethereum-compatible tooling.

What Success Looks Like :

- Bugs are caught early, before they reach users or public environments.
- New pod releases go to production with few or no unexpected issues.
- Clients can trust that pod works correctly in production.
- The engineering team has confidence that new features, fixes, and releases have been tested properly before they ship.

What We Offer :

- Competitive compensation plus meaningful token/equity upside.
- Real ownership of QA and release quality from day one.
- A high-impact role in a small, ambitious engineering team.
- The chance to work on technically challenging distributed systems and market infrastructure.
- Occasional travel for team offsites and crypto industry events.

## About Pod Network

We are building Pod Network, a Layer-1 for open markets. Orders clear in frequent [batch auctions](https://docs.v2.pod.network/documentation/markets/markets-overview), so the best price wins, not the fastest connection. Anyone can launch a market, its rules enforced by code, and anyone, anywhere can trade on it 24/7. We are backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap.

## About pod network

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pod Network is building a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain designed for MEV-free, high-performance global markets, using batch auctions to eliminate latency advantages.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Manhattan Beach, California, United States (with offices in New York, NY and Athens, Greece)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Shresth Agrawal (CEO), Haris Karavasilis (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Layer-1 Blockchain Infrastructure, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Target customers: Developers building decentralized market applications (order books, AMMs, perpetual futures), Web3 protocols, and financial applications
- Mission purpose: To rebuild financial markets from the ground up on trustless blockchain infrastructure, eliminating the advantages of speed and proximity that create unfair markets

## Products & Services
- **Pod Network (L1 Blockchain)**: A novel stake-based programmable Layer-1 with EVM compatibility (EVMx), offering sub-150ms transaction finality and up to 300k TPS. Uses batch auctions instead of continuous order books to eliminate MEV and front-running.
- **Built-in Market Primitives**: Asset-agnostic, fully on-chain composable primitives including order book, matching engine, liquidation, and oracles, enabling developers to launch sophisticated markets quickly.
- **shitpost.wtf**: A decentralized social network built on Pod’s devnet, launched as a proof-of-concept and testing ground.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $10.5M USD
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto (led pre-seed and seed), 1kx, Lemniscap, Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF), Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Protagonist
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $10M seed round in January 2025; headcount grew 160% YoY to 8 employees; integrated with Pi Squared’s Universal Settlement Layer and Rollup-Boost; actively hiring for 5 open positions as of mid-2025

## Competitive Advantages
- **MEV Elimination**: Batch-based ordering removes any advantage from being first in line — the best price wins, not the fastest node. This is a fundamental architectural differentiator from Solana, Ethereum, and other L1s.
- **Latency-Optimal Design**: Sub-150ms finality with no blocks and strong consensus, making it purpose-built for high-frequency trading use cases.
- **EVM Backward Compatibility**: EVMx extension allows developers to use familiar Ethereum tooling (Solidity, wallets, JSON RPC) while gaining Pod’s performance benefits.
- **All-in-One Market Infrastructure**: Provides native order book, matching engine, liquidation engine, and oracles — reducing the complexity of launching a new market.

## Strategic Focus
- Building the premier Layer-1 for global, trustless financial markets
- Expanding developer ecosystem through integrations with Ethereum L2s (Rollup-Boost) and settlement layers (Pi Squared)
- Growing the team in engineering (Smart Contract, Backend/HFT) and business development
- Scaling from devnet to mainnet with a focus on real-world market applications (perpetual futures already live on devnet)

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, cryptography, and high-frequency trading. Team includes PhDs and engineers from top institutions (Yale, Amazon, Ubisoft, Andreessen Horowitz).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Has offices in Manhattan Beach (CA), New York (NY), and Athens, Greece — suggesting a hybrid/remote-friendly culture with physical hubs.
- **Team Size & Ownership**: Very small team (~8 people) means high ownership, direct impact on core protocol design, and close collaboration with founders.
- **Backing**: Backed by a16z crypto and top-tier crypto VCs, providing strong runway and credibility.
- **Global Team**: Distributed across Greece, US, Poland, and UK — offering a multicultural, remote-first working environment.

## Sources
1. [pod.network](https://pod.network/)
2. [LinkedIn - Pod Network](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pod-dot-network)
3. [Tracxn - Pod Network Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/podnetwork/__osXXKpS8KwkJA8UqsU0g6frkuj4zBK06PUqMQg4CAVk)
4. [Ashby - Pod Network Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pod-network)
5. [Pod Network Team Page](https://pod.network/team)

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