Careers at Route36

Careers

At Route36, we build momentum for high-performing teams — and that starts with our own. We're a boutique software development firm based in Boulder, Colorado, working with some of the most innovative companies in the world. If you're passionate about building great software and want to work alongside talented, collaborative people, we'd love to hear from you.

Who We Are

Route36 is a team of engineers, designers, strategists, and problem-solvers committed to delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. We value curiosity, ownership, and a genuine care for the work we do. Our culture is built on trust, transparency, and a shared belief that great software comes from great collaboration.

Areas We Hire For

We're always looking for skilled people across a range of disciplines:

  • Software Engineering (full-stack, frontend, backend)
  • AI & Machine Learning
  • Quality Assurance & Test Automation
  • UX/UI Design
  • Technical Project Management
  • Product Strategy & Consulting
  • Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

What We Value

We look for people who take ownership of their work, communicate openly, and are always looking to grow. Whether you're an experienced professional or early in your career, what matters most to us is your mindset, your drive, and the care you bring to your craft.

Open Positions

Technical Program Manager and Quality Advisor

Boulder, CO

Method Development LLC dba Route36 has an opening in Boulder, CO for a Technical Program Manager and Quality Advisor.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage quality-engineering programs to ensure product reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.
  • Define and implement scalable test-automation frameworks, processes, and quality platforms to support release management and software delivery.
  • Drive adoption of shift-left testing and continuous-testing practices across engineering teams.
  • Develop and maintain test plans and frameworks covering unit, API, integration, and end-to-end testing layers.
  • Define and track quality-performance indicators, including defect-escape rate, mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR), test coverage, and cycle time.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain quality standards across the software-development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical mentorship and leadership to test and automation engineers to promote best practices in test architecture and data validation.
  • Drive process-improvement and quality-engineering transformation initiatives to improve release cadence, resiliency, and reliability.
  • Coordinate program-level test activities, risk management, and release planning with engineering and product-management teams.
  • Participate in planning, resource allocation, and governance activities for major product launches and platform improvements.
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) projects supporting Quality and DevOps initiatives, including environment provisioning, CI/CD-platform migrations, and operational automation in Azure or AWS.
  • Will work in unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.

Requirements

Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or a related field, and 7 years of experience.

5 years must include experience with:

  • Defining and driving scope of iterative testing to achieve predictable product delivery.
  • Driving test and process improvements to reduce defect escape rate.
  • Building master test plans or related methodology coordinating test activities across multiple development teams.
  • Defining and tracking quality-performance indicators for corrective and preventive measures.

2 years must include leadership experience with:

  • Hiring and building a new technical team of software engineers and developers.
  • Driving test automation toward continuous testing using technologies such as Python, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or related languages.
  • Defining and driving scale- and performance-testing architecture using visualization and monitoring tools such as Kibana, Grafana, or similar.
  • Driving Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) projects supporting Quality and DevOps initiatives, including environment provisioning, CI/CD-platform migrations, and operational automation in Azure or AWS.
  • Developing frameworks to provide engineering performance indicators such as Accelerate DevOps metrics using Kibana, Google Data Studio, Power BI, or other data-visualization tools.
  • Leading engineering initiatives to optimize cycle times and increase delivery visibility across CI/CD pipelines.

Must hold at least one industry-recognized certification in project or process management, such as Project Management Professional (PMP) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I), or an equivalent certification in agile or quality management.

To apply, email your resume to jobs@r36.com.

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