Mechanical Engineer

CareFirst Medical; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 69,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

CareFirst Medical in Peoria, IL is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to build tools that developers rely on, including GitLab CI and modern tooling.

This role offers ownership, mentorship, and long-term growth with benefits and flexible Peoria hours, while handling on-call incidents and production support in a collaborative, customer-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technology experience
• Elasticsearch fundamentals
• Proven cross-functional collaboration judgment
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at all levels

Responsibilities

• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across GitLab CI-based applications
• Tune Tailwind CSS queries to prevent timeouts under load

Skills

Hands-on tech

Elasticsearch basics

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Vue.js

Tailwind CSS

Elasticsearch basics

Job description

Build the tools that thousands of developers depend on as a Mechanical Engineer working with GitLab CI and modern tooling. The thing worth noting is how much CareFirst Medical trusts you here — $69,000 - $99,000, technology ownership, and a long runway, all from 3 years in.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput CareFirst Medical workloads
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across GitLab CI-based applications
• Tune Tailwind CSS queries until the IL database stops timing out under load

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions
• Elasticsearch fundamentals plus the Vue.js polish clients notice
• Proven Cross-Functional Collaboration judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level

Here at CareFirst Medical, we combine plainspoken engineering with a relentless focus on the customers we serve in Peoria, IL. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

Here the offer compounds, $69,000 - $99,000 now, mentorship next, benefits throughout, and flexible Peoria, IL hours for the long haul.

The team just got the green light to hire, and this Mechanical Engineer role is first up.