Make buying easy

Paid’s mission is to make it easy for big companies to buy from small businesses.

We are building the next-generation procurement automation platform which turns the procurement functions into a profit centre. Our platform revolutionises the purchasing process by living at the intersection between buyers and suppliers:

• We help large enterprises to find value by accessing the innovation of smaller suppliers in a seamless way - increasing efficiency and reducing cost.

• At the same time, we enable smaller suppliers to interact with their customers with an enterprise grade platform, streamlining the process from order to faster payment.

Cost savings for buyers, faster payments for suppliers - we make the process magic for both sides!

🪄✨ If you’re an experienced QA engineer looking to enhance your skills in a fast-paced start-up environment, this could be the role for you!

💥 Joining as a QA engineer you’ll sitting at the core of our first-class product and development team.

🌱 This role is an exciting opportunity for you to want to get on the ground floor of fast-growing early-stage company.

Role Overview

As a QA Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to assure the quality of our product using various tools and techniques. You will be working across the business, alongside our engineers, product design and product managers to deliver consistent solutions to our wide and varied user base.

You will be responsible for testing all areas of the product including but not limited to functional, business requirements, performance, security, usability and accessibility. You will take ownership of the release process and work closely with the product and customer success teams to ensure updates are implemented seamlessly and the quality of our platform is upheld.

Role Location

Even though this role is posted in a specific location, we are a remote-first company and you can work from home, from anywhere in the UK.

What you’ll be doing

• Working with engineers to build automation and regression tests

• Designing and executing test plans

• User story refinement and agreeing acceptance criterion

• Release candidate preparation

• Bug triage and hotfix coordination

• Manual usability testing

You should join us if

• You have experience building high availability web applications

• You have experience supporting multiple customer types on one platform

• You have experience of product management lifecycles building in time for refactoring and refinements

• You get a kick out of working in fast-paced environments

• You’re a self-starter who enjoys the autonomy of remote working

Bonus points if

• You have experience in TDD

• You have experience in accessibility testing

• You have knowledge of application security

What’s in it for you

What’s next for Paid

With four large enterprise clients including the likes of BT live on our platform, and more in the pipeline to start very soon, for the rest of 2022 we’re focusing on expanding our team, as we rapidly expand from a business perspective and start to explore internationalisation. Over the next six months we are planning to nearly double the size of our team, as we gear up to start thinking about raising our Series A in 2023.

Our team

We are a small but mighty team of 16 people which is growing fast. We work hard together, keeping each other accountable, and iterate quickly so we can successfully deliver our goals. Our people are the most important part of our business, and joining us you will have the opportunity to make a real difference, and help shape the future of Paid.

Our co-founders Tom and Natasha, have worked hard to build a culture of trust within the team; they trust us to deliver the work and we trust them to steer us in the right direction. Working in a remote-first environment we empower all employees to feel autonomy in their work. We strive to maintain a very flat structure across the company, so every employee’s voice can be heard. We don’t believe in micromanaging!

We live by the following core beliefs keep us focused on delivering our mission:

• We believe that business is about people, not process. Relationships will always matter most.

• We believe that software solutions should just work. The experience should be simple, purposeful and powerful

• We believe that we can help smaller businesses thrive and the biggest businesses innovate and move quickly

• We believe in guarantees: Cost savings for buyers and faster payments for suppliers