TomPlay

Who are we?

Tomplay is a leading innovator in the digital music industry, offering interactive sheet music for musicians of all levels. With a mission to transform the way people learn and enjoy playing music, we combine technology with creativity to deliver exceptional user experiences.

The Tomplay app is used by more than 2M musicians in 157 countries. The company has distribution partnerships with Yamaha and Kawai, two of the world's largest instrument manufacturers, as well as key licensing agreements with dozens of publishers, positioning Tomplay's platform as the leader in interactive music learning. More information is available at www.tomplay.com.

Job summary: 

We're looking for a QA Engineer to take ownership of day-to-day testing across our apps and website: iPad, Android tablets and phones, Windows, macOS and web.

This is not a checklist-execution role. We don't want the same 200 manual checks repeated every release. We're looking for someone who can identify what is genuinely high-risk, prioritise testing accordingly, and use AI and automation to reduce repetitive manual work.

We value judgment, curiosity, initiative and speed more than years of experience. If you have one or two years of QA experience—or you're moving into QA from a related technical role, learn quickly, and already use AI in your workflow—we'd like to hear from you.

We are open to full-time candidates, freelancers, and specialized QA agencies that can provide a dedicated tester matching the requirements below.

What you will do:

• Test new releases across iPad, Android, Windows, macOS and web, from the perspective of a real musician using the app, not a script.
• Perform functional, regression, operational and end-to-end workflow testing across all supported platforms.
• Write new test cases and keep the test suite honest: add what's missing, retire what stopped earning its place.
• Decide what to test first based on what would actually hurt if it broke. Trial sign-up, subscription, purchase and account access come before everything else, every release.
• Use AI tools (Claude, Copilot or similar) to generate test cases, write and maintain automation scripts, and cut down repetitive manual work.
• Build up automated smoke and regression coverage for the critical paths, so every release gets checked the same way without a human repeating themselves.
• Turn around bug-fix and release-candidate retesting quickly, prioritising release-critical issues.
• Write bug reports a developer can act on immediately: clear steps, right platform, right build, actual vs expected.

• Flag risk early when a timeline threatens coverage, rather than quietly hoping.

   

What we require from you: 

You're a musician. You play at least one instrument, you read notation, and you have a working grasp of music theory. You don't need to be a professional or a conservatory graduate, but you should be comfortable reading a score and not thrown by things like MIDI, transposition, time signatures or the difference between a part and a full score. A classical background is a plus. If you already use Tomplay, tell us what you play on it.

You actively use AI in your QA workflow. You already use tools such as Claude, Copilot or similar AI assistants as part of your working process—not just experimentally—and can explain a real QA or automation workflow you've built with them.

You're comfortable across platforms. You don't need experience on all five of iPad, Android, Windows, macOS and web, but you need access to at least a computer and a tablet, and the appetite to get up to speed on the rest quickly.

You're technically curious. Comfortable in browser dev tools, able to read a log file, and able to make a reasonable guess at whether a bug is front-end, back-end or environment before handing it over.

You want to get good at this. You're organised, autonomous, analytical, and you'd rather learn a better way of testing than defend the way you were taught.

You write and speak fluent English.

Any of the following would be a plus: 

• Any hands-on test automation, with any framework (Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Selenium or similar).
• AI orchestration for QA. Experience using Claude Code or similar agentic AI tools to execute tests, inspect results, identify failures and iterate—not only to generate scripts that are then run manually. Experience from side projects or experiments is also valuable.
• Experience testing subscription, paywall or free-trial flows.

• Experience with music, education or consumer subscription apps.

   

Practical details: 

• Fully remote, with flexible working hours. We are open to full-time candidates, freelancers and specialized QA agencies. The exact working arrangement will be discussed during the interview.
• Start date: flexible.
• Open to growing opportunities. The scope of this role can expand with the person in it.

• Part of the process is a short trial task: a real build, around two hours of your time, and a conversation about what you chose to test first and why. It is unpaid and we keep it deliberately short. Anything you find is yours to talk about, we are not asking you to do free work at scale.

   

We’re excited to hear from you! 🎶

Who are we? 

Tomplay is a leading innovator in the digital music industry, offering interactive sheet music for musicians of all levels. With a mission to transform the way people learn and enjoy playing music, we combine technology with creativity to deliver exceptional user experiences.

The Tomplay app is used by more than 2M musicians in 157 countries. The company has entered into a distribution partnership with Yamaha and Kawai, the world's largest instrument manufacturers, as well as key licensing agreements with dozens of publishers, positioning Tomplay's platform as the leader in interactive music learning. More information is available at www.tomplay.com.

Job summary: 

We are looking for a back-end developer near the start of their career to work across the PHP systems that run Tomplay:

• tomplay.com → the public website, catalogue, shop and accounts. Laravel 10 on PHP 8.2, layered architecture, Solr-backed search.
• Web services → the API our mobile, desktop and web players call. Plain PHP, no framework, high traffic, plenty of history.

Both systems share one MySQL database and are maintained by a small team alongside our internal tools. You’ll work across the stack, from shipping website features to fixing API endpoints used by our apps.

We’re looking for someone who learns fast, asks good questions and is comfortable working with both modern Laravel architecture and legacy PHP/SQL. You’ll get real responsibility early and the opportunity to grow into owning key areas of the product.

This is a hands-on role. You write code every day.

What you will do:

• Build and maintain features across the website, the app API and our internal tools.
• Write and optimise MySQL queries against a database the whole product depends on.
• Build and maintain APIs consumed by our web, mobile and desktop clients.
• Debug production issues and make them not come back.
• Use AI-assisted development to move fast, and take full responsibility for what you merge.
• Help push our testing and code quality forward. There is a lot of room here.

• Work directly with product, design, the app team and the music team.

   

 What we require from you: 

• 1–3 years of professional back-end experience, with hands-on PHP and Laravel experience.
• Strong SQL skills, including joins, read an EXPLAIN and have a decent instinct for why something is slow.
• Git, REST APIs, and code of yours that has run in production somewhere.
• You actively use AI-assisted development tools and understand where they add value, where they fall short, and how to validate their output.
• You read the code before asking, you ask when you are actually stuck, and you propose things nobody asked you for.
• You own what you ship: you test your work thoroughly, understand the code you merge and take responsibility for its quality. When feedback does come, you take it well. 
• Good written and spoken English.

• Self-motivated and able to organise your own day. Remote work only works if you can.

   

Any of the following would be a plus: 

• Multi-step AI workflows (Claude Code, Cursor or similar), with a strong approach to quality control.
• AWS, Docker, CI/CD.
• Redis, memcached, queues, caching.
• Solr or another search engine.
• Front-end familiarity (Blade, JS, webpack).
• Side projects, open source, or anything you built because you wanted to.

• Interest in music, music technology, or playing an instrument.

   

Technical details: 

Start date: as soon as possible 

Salary: competitive, will be discussed during the interview 

Location: Europe, in a time zone within 1 hour of CET/CEST, with full availability during our core working hours.

Person of contact: Natalie Olivero.