--- title: 'QA Lead at Baselane' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/qa-lead-baselane-remote-ft0npa91sgje' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # QA Lead at Baselane - **Company:** Baselane - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $100k–$130k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/baselane/89a1a0c9-ce0b-4c0e-b6a7-2ef437071256 ## Job description ## About Baselane Baselane is a rapidly growing banking and financial management platform for individual landlords and real estate investors. We are backed by leading FinTech investors, including Activant Capital, Collaborative Fund, Conversion Capital, Diagram Ventures, ThomVest, and many FinTech leaders from PayPal, eBay, Google, and more. We are building the future of financial services for the 12+ million individual landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes in the United States. Our mission is to empower landlords with financial services, automated tools, and actionable insights to help them save time, increase their returns, and grow their investment portfolios. We are a seasoned team with deep experience in financial services and technology. We have previously worked at companies including The Boston Consulting Group, Morgan Stanley, Plaid, Harry’s, Better, WealthSimple, RBC Ventures, Affirm, NorthOne, RazorPay, and more. Learn more at baselane.com. ## About the Role We operate in an AI-first engineering environment, where AI-powered development is at the core of how we design, build, and deliver software. As our engineers ship faster with AI coding agents, quality has to keep pace, and that means automation. We’re looking for a hands-on QA Lead who is equally comfortable writing Playwright tests and leading a team of both manual and automation testers. This is a player-coach role: you’ll spend a significant part of your time building automation yourself, while guiding our manual QA team as they grow into automation, and help the engineering team write better test cases. Expect roughly half your time hands-on in the codebase, building new automated tests, healing flaky or broken ones, and helping our engineers write better tests for the features they ship. You’ll set the quality strategy, lead by example, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and DevOps to help our engineers own quality end-to-end. The other half focused on building the QA team and practice. Our stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Our test stack is built around Playwright. Core Responsibilities - Build automation hands-on: Write, review, and maintain Playwright tests yourself, covering critical user flows, APIs, and regression suites. You’ll be one of the most active contributors to our test codebase. - Coach and grow the QA team: Lead our manual QA team through pairing, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship, upskilling team members into automation and setting clear expectations for quality ownership. - Own the automation framework: Define the architecture, patterns, and conventions of our test framework so it stays fast, reliable, and easy for both QA and engineers to contribute to. - Integrate quality into delivery: Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so every change is validated before it reaches production, and partner with DevOps on test environments and data. - Test with AI agents: Use tools like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and debugging while owning the reliability of the output, and teach the team to do the same. - Define quality standards: Establish acceptance criteria, test plans, and release readiness standards with Product and Engineering, and track meaningful quality metrics (coverage, escaped defects, flakiness, cycle time). - Protect what matters most: Ensure high confidence in money-movement, banking, and compliance-sensitive flows where correctness is non-negotiable. ## Key Requirements - 7+ years in software quality, including 2+ years leading QA teams while remaining hands-on. - Strong, current hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks with Playwright (or Cypress, Selenium, or similar), using TypeScript/JavaScript. You still enjoy writing tests every week. - Experience testing web applications and APIs (GraphQL for main product, REST for partner endpoints), including test data management and environment setup. - Proven track record coaching manual testers into automation and integrating tests into CI/CD workflows. - Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to write and maintain tests, with the judgment to validate their output. - Strong communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across engineering and product. - Experience testing AI/LLM-powered features: building eval sets (golden datasets), defining pass criteria for non-deterministic output, and running evals in CI to catch regressions from prompt or model changes. - ## Nice to Have - Experience in FinTech, banking, payments, or integrations with Stripe, Plaid, or BaaS providers. - Experience with performance, load, or security testing. - Experience with visual regression, contract testing, or test observability tooling. This is a remote first role. While we expect you to come to the office for monthly team building events, the work is remote first. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and the opportunity for you to help build a new product and culture from the ground up with founders with deep experience and who know what they are doing. If you are interested in learning more, we'd love to chat. ## About Baselane ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Baselane provides an all-in-one banking and financial management platform purpose-built for real estate investors and landlords. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA (85 Fifth Ave, Floor 7) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Mathias Korder (CEO), Thorben Scheidegger (COO), Jad Yaghi (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial technology (Fintech) serving the residential real estate investment market. - **Target customers**: B2B – Landlords, real estate investors, and property operators who own and manage multiple properties. - **Mission / purpose**: “Banking that moves real estate forward” – giving investors the financial clarity and control to run their business without cognitive load. ## Products & Services - **Baselane Banking**: Unlimited property-specific checking accounts with no monthly fees, FDIC insurance (via Thread Bank), and high-yield interest. (Banking service) - **Baselane Books**: AI-powered automated bookkeeping that tags transactions to the correct entity, property, and tax category for instant cash flow insights and year-end reports. (SaaS / integrated software) - **Rent Collection**: Automatic invoicing and reminders for rent, deposits, and late fees; online payment processing. (Service) - **Tenant Screening**: Background checks and credit reports for prospective tenants. (Service) - **Real Estate Investment Loans**: Financing options for real estate investors. (Lending product) - **Payment Automation**: Automate bill payments, disbursements, and balance top-ups to prevent overdrafts. (Feature) ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised ~$44M (as of Sep 2026 per company site; CB Insights reports $42.4M). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Matrix Partners - Diagram Ventures - Thomvest Ventures - Activant Capital - Starwood Capital Group - Thread Bank (banking partner) - **Growth Signals**: - Series B round of $20M raised ~1 year ago. - Rapid scaling across revenue, team size, and product surface area. - Expanding hybrid team presence in New York City and Toronto. - Building a dedicated engineering and product organization to dominate the intersection of real estate and financial services. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical-specific depth**: Unlike generic banking or accounting tools, Baselane is built from the ground up for multi-property investors, solving workflows that legacy systems ignore. - **All-in-one integration**: Combines banking, bookkeeping, rent collection, tenant screening, and lending – reducing the need for multiple vendors. - **AI-first automation**: Automatically categorizes transactions with AI, eliminating manual data entry and providing real-time financial visibility. - **User experience**: Rejects the “steep learning curve” of traditional property management software; aims for powerful but intuitive design. - **FDIC insurance**: Pass-through deposit insurance coverage via Thread Bank up to standard limits. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to expand the platform’s “banking, accounting, and operations” capabilities for real estate investors. - Deepen domain expertise and product surface area to become the single financial operating system for the $4T real estate investment industry. - Scale the team while preserving a culture of high agency, extreme collaboration, and relentless execution. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High agency, ambitious goals, data-driven decision making, direct feedback, no politics – values include “relentless execution,” “extreme collaboration,” and “domain obsession.” - **Work model**: Hybrid – primarily in New York City and Toronto offices. - **Impact**: Opportunity to reshape how a massive, underserved industry operates; team is growing quickly across revenue, product, and headcount. - **Engineering culture**: Trust-based, with a focus on shipping products that are “exponentially better” than competitors; strong emphasis on quality and customer obsession. - **Perks**: Not detailed, but the career page highlights bold targets, support for growth, and a team that cares about getting it right. ## Sources 1. [baselane.com/careers](https://www.baselane.com/careers) 2. [baselane.com/about](https://www.baselane.com/about) 3. [baselane.com](https://www.baselane.com/) 4. 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