Quality Engineer

DigitalBridge; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalBridge, based in Chesapeake, VA, is seeking a Quality Engineer with Google Cloud skills to join the technology team. The role offers sizable autonomy and a starter salary range with room to grow as you contribute to real distributed systems.

You will design backend services with Node.js and Kotlin, own key workstreams, and collaborate with product on timelines. The position emphasizes writing clear documentation and a growth mindset.

Qualifications

• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain.
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description.
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output.
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation.
• Growth mindset, refined over 1+ years.

Responsibilities

• Own the junior Goal Setting workstream that unblocks the Chesapeake, VA roadmap.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Node.js and Kotlin.
• Design Node.js APIs other Chesapeake teams will rely on.
• Decide when to buy Tailwind CSS versus build it for the stack.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Negotiate Goal Setting tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Hand off Kotlin runbooks so the on-call experience improves.

Skills

Written communication

Curiosity

Quality mindset

Clarity in documentation

Growth mindset

Job description

Ready to work on real distributed systems? DigitalBridge is adding a Quality Engineer skilled in Google Cloud to the technology team. Few Chesapeake employers pair $52,000 - $79,000 with this much technology autonomy, and fewer still ask only 1 years to earn it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the junior Goal Setting workstream that unblocks the rest of DigitalBridge's Chesapeake, VA roadmap
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Node.js and Kotlin
• Design Node.js APIs other Chesapeake, VA teams will still thank you for next year
• Decide when to buy Tailwind CSS versus build it for DigitalBridge's Chesapeake, VA stack
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Negotiate Goal Setting tradeoffs with product when DigitalBridge timelines and reality collide
• Hand off Kotlin runbooks so the next on-call at DigitalBridge sleeps better

What You'll Bring

• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• A solid foundation in Growth Mindset, refined over 1+ years

DigitalBridge writes the software that keeps technology operations humming, all of it engineered in Chesapeake, VA by an empathy-led bunch. Every endlessly-iterating idea gets a fair hearing at DigitalBridge, no matter the 1 of experience behind it.

At DigitalBridge, $52,000 - $79,000 is just the opener; the mentorship, benefits, and Chesapeake, VA flexibility are where the offer gets good.

This posting reflects an open need we are working to close this quarter.