Quality Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Paid growth time

Job summary

NexTech Systems, based in Pasadena, is seeking a mid-level Quality Engineer. The role involves diagnosing and fixing user-reported bugs, evaluating new tools and Next.js libraries, and untangling Django dependencies to accelerate Pasadena releases.

You will optimize Emotional Intelligence caching and queries to prevent timeouts under load, translating business needs into precise technical tasks while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve.
• Demonstrated calm when a Pasadena, CA client changes scope mid-stream.
• Emotional Intelligence fundamentals plus the MongoDB polish clients notice.
• A wildly-collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn new skills.
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Next.js libraries.
• Untangle the Django dependency knots that have slowed Pasadena releases for months.
• Tune Emotional Intelligence caching so NexTech Systems survives the Pasadena launch spike on the same hardware.
• Tune Emotional Intelligence queries until the CA database stops timing out under load.
• Translate ruthlessly-focused business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.

Skills

Bug fixing

Tool evaluation

Performance tuning

Collaborative skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

MongoDB

Next.js

Django

Job description

This mid-level Quality Engineer opening is for someone who treats Cypress documentation as a first draft they intend to improve. The promise is concrete — $103,000 - $159,000, temporary hours, 5 years honored, and a technology role at NexTech Systems that grows with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Next.js libraries
• Untangle the Django dependency knots that have slowed Pasadena releases for months
• Tune Emotional Intelligence caching so NexTech Systems survives the Pasadena launch spike on the same hardware
• Tune Emotional Intelligence queries until the CA database stops timing out under load
• Translate ruthlessly-focused business requirements into technical specifications and tasks

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Demonstrated calm when a Pasadena, CA client changes scope mid-stream
• Emotional Intelligence fundamentals plus the MongoDB polish clients notice
• A wildly-collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output

Trusted by businesses nationwide, NexTech Systems operates an unpretentious technology platform from its Pasadena base. The warm-yet-rigorous pace here is real, but so is the permission to log off and recover.

The number is $103,000 - $159,000; the rest is mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and a temporary arrangement that respects your evenings.

We stamped it current today; the temporary opening is genuinely accepting candidates.