Quality Engineer

Egreenservices; Bangor (ME); Hybrid; USD 49,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Paid learning days

Kafka growth mentorship

Job summary

Illinois Tool Works in Bangor, ME is seeking a Quality Engineer to contribute to an opinionated engineering team. You will bring roughly 1+ years of Quality Engineer experience and Kafka exposure, with a path to grow in a hybrid work environment.

You will be mentored to advance your Kafka growth, while supporting QA practices and delivering reliable technical solutions. The role emphasizes collaboration and ownership in a small, fast-moving team.

Qualifications

• Approximately 1+ years in a Quality Engineer role.
• Kafka experience or exposure.
• Experience collaborating on remote projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives.
• Watch Ansible budgets and manage risk for Bangor, ME projects.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workflows.
• Build internal tooling to improve developer productivity and velocity.
• Harden Next.js auth to ensure audits pass.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs and tasks.
• Sketch sequence diagrams to clarify technology flow.

Skills

Kafka

Quality Engineering

Remote work

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Illinois Tool Works keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Bangor, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Quality Engineer. You'll bring 1 years of Kafka, and in return get $49,000 - $74,000, a supportive team, and the freedom to drive your own results.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives
• Watch Ansible error budgets and pump the brakes before Bangor, ME burns through them
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Illinois Tool Works workloads
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Harden Illinois Tool Works's Next.js auth so the ME audit comes back clean
• Translate inclusive business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Sketch Teamwork sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone

What You'll Bring

• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a remote project
• Detail-oriented approach with a commitment to accuracy
• Roughly 1+ years operating in a similar Quality Engineer position

Illinois Tool Works began as a side project in Bangor and grew into the relentlessly curious platform thousands of technology users now rely on. We trust the junior folks closest to the customer to make the call without a committee.

This Bangor, ME role comes with $49,000 - $74,000, hybrid work, paid learning days, and a mentor focused on your Kafka growth.

We are growing the Illinois Tool Works team in ME and adding this position immediately.