Quality Engineer

Nestle; Iowa City (IA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestle in Iowa City, IA seeks a Quality Engineer who prefers削 code over adding it. The role pays $78,000 to $112,000, with mentorship and benefits over time, reflecting a practical, hands-on tech culture rooted in Iowa City.

You'll mentor teammates, monitor production health, and drive architecture changes toward service-based MySQL implementations while maintaining a lean process and Work Ethic focus.

Qualifications

• Comfort in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.
• Ability to own metrics that move based on your work.
• Mid-level skill in conflict resolution and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Mentor mid-level engineers and support on-call duties.
• Monitor system health and set up production alerts.
• Migrate monolithic tech toward MySQL-based services in Iowa City.
• Collaborate with analysts to align Work Ethic models with real behavior.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with unit testing and multitasking.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix user-reported issues.

Skills

Conflict Resolution

Client-centric mindset

Ownership of metrics

Tools

MySQL

Docker/Containerization

Unit Testing

Job description

We're a community-minded technology shop in IA hunting for a Quality Engineer who'd rather delete code than add it. This Iowa City opening trades 3 years and Flask for $78,000 - $112,000, then layers on the ownership most listings only hint at.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Ruby on-call at Nestle
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for fun-loving production environments
• Slice the make-it-better technology monolith into MySQL services Iowa City, IA can deploy alone
• Pair with technology analysts so Nestle's Work Ethic models match real behavior
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Unit Testing and Multitasking
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools

What You'll Bring

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, client-centric environment
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Mid-level mastery of Conflict Resolution, validated by people who'd hire you again

Nestle exists to solve hard technology problems with an ambitious approach and an Iowa City, IA-rooted culture. We keep our process light so engineers can spend their energy on Work Ethic and MySQL, not bureaucracy.

Here the offer compounds, $78,000 - $112,000 now, mentorship next, benefits throughout, and flexible Iowa City, IA hours for the long haul.

Updated today and reviewed daily, the technology role stays open.