Backend Reliability Engineer — Kafka, TypeScript, Cloud

Energy Innovation Corp; Ames (IA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Manufacturing Excellence Inc in Ames, IA, seeks a backend-oriented Mechanical Engineer to design and stabilize systems handling high-throughput workloads. You’ll own fixes for outages, optimize data handling with Kafka and TypeScript, and contribute to automation and testing so releases come with confidence.

The role emphasizes clear communication, ownership of issues, and practical Conflict Resolution, with Python experience as a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years operating in a similar Mechanical Engineer position.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to flag mistakes and own outcomes.
• Practical command of Conflict Resolution; Python is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads
• Translate the TypeScript outage into fixes for the Ames launch
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
• Trim cloud bill by right-sizing the infrastructure in Ames, IA
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems

Skills

Communication

Conflict Resolution

Python

Kafka

TypeScript

Tools

Kafka

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Manufacturing Excellence Inc in Ames, IA, seeks a backend-oriented Mechanical Engineer to design and stabilize systems handling high-throughput workloads. You’ll own fixes for outages, optimize data handling with Kafka and TypeScript, and contribute to automation and testing so releases come with confidence.

The role emphasizes clear communication, ownership of issues, and practical Conflict Resolution, with Python experience as a plus.