Electrical Engineer

StartupAdvantage; Elgin (IL); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Paid growth time

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

StartupAdvantage is seeking an Electrical Engineer in Elgin, IL on a hybrid basis. The role pairs a salary range of $59,000–$89,000 with ownership, collaboration, and a long-term growth track.

You will resurrect flaky tests, automate pipelines, and protect code quality while reducing technical debt. This position emphasizes ownership of outcomes and a candor-rich approach to quality, in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with process improvement.
• Comfort with owning the unglamorous middle of a hybrid project.
• At least 1 year of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Resurrect flaky tests and stabilize the Elgin IL suite.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster releases.
• Guard code quality through constructive reviews and mentoring.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Move StartupAdvantage's GitLab CI stack out of the IL region before migration deadline.
• Ship GitLab CI experiments quickly and prioritize successful approaches.
• Scale Elasticsearch services from Elgin pilot to IL-wide rollout.

Skills

Process Improvement

Hybrid project experience

1 year experience

Technology best practices

Tools

GitLab CI

Elasticsearch

Jest

Job description

The Electrical Engineer we're hiring will inherit a technology codebase with good bones and a few skeletons; StartupAdvantage is honest about both. A hybrid Electrical Engineer seat at StartupAdvantage that pairs $59,000 - $89,000 with ownership, collaboration, and a long-term growth track.

Key Responsibilities

• Resurrect flaky Multitasking tests until the Elgin, IL suite is trustworthy again
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
• Guard the Scrum codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Pull StartupAdvantage's GitLab CI stack out of the IL region before the migration deadline
• Ship GitLab CI experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Scale StartupAdvantage's Elasticsearch services from Elgin pilot to IL-wide rollout

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on familiarity with Process Improvement, sharpened by Jest side projects
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a hybrid project
• 1 years that taught you which corners can be cut
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards

Plenty of firms claim to do technology; StartupAdvantage actually does it, and from Elgin no less, with a candor-rich stubbornness about quality. Every Electrical Engineer at StartupAdvantage owns an outcome, not just a checklist of tasks.

The number is $59,000 - $89,000; the rest is mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and a hybrid arrangement that respects your evenings.

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