Intern Mechanical Engineer: Test & Systems

Egreenservices; Iowa City (IA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Flexible work location

Job summary

Retail Systems Corp in Iowa City, IA is listing a Mechanical Engineer internship role focused on attention management and controlling unpredictable surprises. The position offers $81,000 - $111,000 annually, equity, and top-tier health benefits with the flexibility to work where you do your best thinking.

The role emphasizes building test suites, improving automation, scaling Kafka pipelines, and refining legacy code while ensuring risk is surfaced early and decisions are well documented.

Qualifications

• Proven Next.js results, ideally seasoned in Iowa City, IA
• Fluency in Kafka earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
• Solid Spring Boot grounding, plus Next.js you can pick up on the fly
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Demonstrated knack for making the slow-to-anger feel manageable

Responsibilities

• Write the Work Ethic integration tests that catch regressions before Iowa City, IA ships them
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Kafka
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Stress-test Vue.js systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked

Skills

Attention to management

Leadership experience

Risk assessment

Tools

Kafka

Next.js

Spring Boot

Vue.js

Job description

Retail Systems Corp in Iowa City, IA is listing a Mechanical Engineer internship role focused on attention management and controlling unpredictable surprises. The position offers $81,000 - $111,000 annually, equity, and top-tier health benefits with the flexibility to work where you do your best thinking.

The role emphasizes building test suites, improving automation, scaling Kafka pipelines, and refining legacy code while ensuring risk is surfaced early and decisions are well documented.