Farren Product Quality Specialist Boulder, CO · Part time Company website

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We’re an early-stage, high growth, AI-native startup on a mission to reshape the way people train, move, and feel. We believe fitness is the ultimate unlock for living well—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Backed by proven founders and deeply committed to our mission, we’re building something bold, human, and deeply personal. We’re in stealth for now. But we’re moving fast—and building to last.

At Farren, the world's best coaches trust us with their programming — and athletes trust us with their training. That trust lives or dies in the app. A workout that stutters, a build that breaks, an edge case that leaves an athlete staring at a spinner mid-session: these are broken promises to athletes that have entrusted us with the best hour of their day.

We're hiring a Product Quality Specialist to own quality across the Farren application and the technical platforms it runs on. You'll be the standing between every build and every athlete — going through nightly builds, smoke testing releases end to end, pressure-testing new features before they ship, and hunting down the edge cases that cause real user frustration. You'll also help us ship faster, tightening our testing process so we get high quality features to market faster.

This is a workout app, and it's hard to find the bugs without legitimately working out on it. You'll spend much of your time in our in office gym, training with various coaches and getting to know how the experience feels and sounds. If you love working out and are detail oriented -- we want to hear from you.

What You'll Own

• Overseeing build — going through them systematically, catching regressions before anyone else sees them
• Smoke testing builds as a whole, so every release is verified end to end before it ships
• Testing new features as they land, from happy path through the weird stuff
• Edge case hunting — finding the states, inputs, and sequences that cause user frustration before an athlete ever hits them
• Documenting and ticketing breakages so engineering can solve the issue
• Quality oversight across the application and the technical platforms Farren runs on
• Speed — helping us tighten the QA and release process so build done times get faster, not slower, as we grow
• The athlete experience bar: making sure what we deliver feels polished, reliable, and worthy of the coaches whose names are on it

What We're Looking For

• Real QA and testing experience on consumer applications — mobile and web — ideally through a launch or period of fast iteration
• Comfort working with builds, release pipelines, and test environments; you can navigate a nightly build process without hand-holding
• A systematic approach to smoke testing and regression testing, and the judgment to know what needs a deep pass versus a quick check
• An instinct for edge cases — you think in "what happens if the connection drops mid-set?" and "what does this look like on a three-year-old phone?"
• Extremely detailed. You notice the layout that shifts by two pixels, the state that doesn't persist, the flow that works but feels wrong
• A user's eye, not just a tester's — you care about whether the experience is good, not just whether it passes
• Bias toward speed: you see QA as something that accelerates shipping, not a gate that slows it down
• Based near Boulder, CO and able to come into the office twice a week

Reports to: Morgan Hartley, Engineering Lead

Engagement Terms

This is a 1099 independent contractor position. A few things that follow from that:

• You'll work an expected ~20 hours per week
• As an independent contractor, you're responsible for providing your own equipment, including your own computer
• You control the manner and means of how you get the work done, within Farren's quality bar and deliverables — we're not setting a fixed schedule of hours or supervising day-to-day tasks the way we would for an employee
• This role does not include employee benefits (health insurance, paid time off, equity, or retirement contributions), and no taxes are withheld from contractor pay — you're responsible for your own tax filings and insurance
• The engagement is ongoing on an at-will, as-needed basis and can be adjusted or ended by either party
• This posting and any resulting engagement do not create an employer-employee relationship

How We Work

We work out as a team almost every day and are the principal users of our own product. We're in-person in Boulder because the fastest way to understand a bug report is to hit it yourself, mid-workout, and the fastest way to fix it is to walk over to the person who wrote the code.

We move fast, sweat the details, and course-correct without ego. This is a role for someone self driven who wants to define what "quality" means at Farren — and hold every build to it.