The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Boston Consulting Group is hiring a Mechanical Engineer in Arlington, VA.

• Role description

  Engineers who can explain Jenkins to a skeptic and still ship by Friday tend to thrive in our Mechanical Engineer role in Arlington. This position rewards REST API and AWS mastery with $71,000 - $104,000, team collaboration, and ownership of what you ship.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Cut Unit Testing cold-start times so Boston Consulting Group functions wake before VA users notice
  • Own the deadline-driven PostgreSQL subsystem that the rest of Boston Consulting Group quietly depends on
  • Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
  • Negotiate Java tradeoffs with product when Boston Consulting Group timelines and reality collide
  • Ship PostgreSQL fixes to Boston Consulting Group customers in Arlington, VA the same day they report them
  • Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Boston Consulting Group stack

  What You'll Bring

  • A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
  • A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
  • Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Azure, sharpened by Java side projects
  • Quietly-excellent problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission
  • The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments

  The spirited-and-grounded founders of Boston Consulting Group built it in Arlington to fix the exact technology problems that drove them crazy elsewhere. Kindness and high standards live together comfortably on this quality-obsessed Arlington team.

  Think competitive $71,000 - $104,000, full benefits, a clear runway to grow your PostgreSQL, and the latitude to work the way you work best.

  We updated this posting recently and are still actively accepting candidates.

  We're not after perfect, we're after ready, so if that's you, apply for Mechanical Engineer now.

• Required skills

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Java
  • Jenkins
  • Unit Testing
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST API
  • Stress Management
  • Professionalism

• Benefits & perks

  • Paid maternity leave
  • Happy hours and social events
  • Nap pods
  • Hotel and lodging coverage
  • Oil Changes
  • Industry membership dues
  • Paternity Leave

• Apply before 2026-08-14

  Submit your application for this Part-time technology position.