Junior Software Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & Growth

Energy Innovation Corp; Great Falls (MT); On-site; USD 46,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coaching

Weekend-friendly hours

Job summary

InnovateLab in Great Falls, MT is seeking a Software Engineer to make Nginx-based systems perform under pressure. The role offers ownership of technology work, with coaching and weekend-friendly hours in Montana.

The position pays $46,000–$75,000 annually, with growth opportunities and shared gains. Ideal for someone with 1 year of hands-on experience and a bias toward action who can bridge Kubernetes, Java, and Node.js components.

Qualifications

• Hands-dirty bias toward action with ownership mindset.
• Willingness to take on new responsibilities and growth.
• 1 year of experience showing practical outcomes.
• Ability to work in the unglamorous middle of a project.

Responsibilities

• Pull Node.js telemetry into dashboards used by InnovateLab leaders.
• Profile Node.js memory usage and fix leaks in Great Falls nodes.
• Bridge Kubernetes and Java to enable platform communication.
• Stress-test Kubernetes systems and harden where they crack.
• Keep AWS CI under ten minutes to maintain developer flow in MT.

Skills

Node.js

Kubernetes

AWS

Memory profiling

Dashboarding

Tools

Node.js

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

InnovateLab in Great Falls, MT is seeking a Software Engineer to make Nginx-based systems perform under pressure. The role offers ownership of technology work, with coaching and weekend-friendly hours in Montana.

The position pays $46,000–$75,000 annually, with growth opportunities and shared gains. Ideal for someone with 1 year of hands-on experience and a bias toward action who can bridge Kubernetes, Java, and Node.js components.