Quality Engineer - Hybrid, Kafka Growth Mentor

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 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.