Head of Quality Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="text-align: left;">Work from anywhere, impact everywhere&nbsp;</h2> <p>Diversity is at the heart of who we are at Xapo Bank. <br>We’re a fully distributed team of over 160 Xapiens that work remotely from 50+ countries around the world.</p> <p>Our beginning: A world that enjoys economic freedom and wealth protection,no matter where you live or who is running your country.<br>To achieve that, we search the world for the best people for the job. <br>We work hard, think globally, and inspire each other to learn and grow. <br>We are committed to changing the way things are done.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 500;">Although we are headquartered in Gibraltar, this is a full time, 100% remote position&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-weight: 500;">Work from anywhere!</span></p></div><h2>Position overview</h2> <p>We're looking for a Head of Quality Engineering to join our technology function, reporting directly to the CTO. At Xapo, we are building truly cross-functional teams with full ownership of design, architecture, building, testing, delivery, data, and operations, structured as Stream Aligned Teams (SATs), Platform teams and Enabling teams as per Team Topologies.</p> <p>This role owns the quality framework across the entire technology function, coverage standards, gate criteria, AI-assisted test tooling, SAT enablement, and pre-release veto authority. You give engineering, apps, and web a single accountable owner for what "quality" means and how it is measured.</p> <p>This is not a traditional QA role. You will not sit in a test team checking other people's code, SAT engineers own quality in their own code (shift-left). You own the system engineers test within: the framework, the tooling, the gates, and the standards.</p> <p>The role is deliberately tooling-heavy over headcount-heavy. Your budget is for tooling and AI tokens, not for building a QA team beneath you. The agentic QA pipeline is already in active PoC with positive early results; you will own scaling it to production. Your north star: fully automated quality enforcement, where releases are blocked automatically when rigorous checks fail, without needing human intervention. Target: more than 80% of release quality decisions made by automated tooling within 12 months of hire.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to shape how a regulated crypto bank defines and enforces software quality,&nbsp; at the intersection of engineering excellence, AI-assisted tooling, and a genuinely high-stakes production environment.</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Coverage baselines: define measurable coverage thresholds per service and per tribe, with trend visibility, and drive adoption across teams.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>SAT enablement: produce the training, documentation, tooling, and templates that let Stream Aligned Team engineers do quality work them…