Electrical Engineer

Growth Partners; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Growth Partners in Houston, TX is seeking an Electrical Engineer for a freelance, mid-level role with ownership expectations. Offering $85,000 - $125,000 annually for a four-year engagement, the position emphasizes responsibility and impact in a fast data environment.

You will engage with legacy REST APIs, build Go features, improve test coverage, and drive performance gains across Elasticsearch and related systems to support Texas growth.

Qualifications

• Flexibility to adapt your approach as business needs evolve.
• Track record that proves you can ship under deadline pressure.
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit.
• The instinct to ask what would change your mind before debating.

Responsibilities

• Reach into legacy REST API modules and leave them cleaner than you found them.
• Translate outage into fixes that make the next Houston launch dull.
• Build the Go feature that wins back TX accounts Growth Partners lost.
• Backfill Go test coverage on the riskiest corners of Growth Partners's codebase.
• Carry the Elasticsearch platform work that makes Growth Partners's next TX expansion boring.
• Push Work-Life Balance changes safely behind flags so Houston, TX rollbacks take seconds.
• Land REST API performance wins Growth Partners can measure in TX retention numbers.

Skills

Flexibility

Deadline-driven

Team player

Curiosity-driven

Job description

Our platform processes enormous volumes of data, and we need an Electrical Engineer who can keep it fast and resilient. The offer reads simply — freelance, $85,000 - $125,000, 4 years, and a mid-level role where ownership is not a perk but the point.

Key Responsibilities

• Reach into legacy REST API modules and leave them cleaner than you found them


• Translate the quietly-excellent Analytical Thinking outage into fixes that make the next Houston launch dull


• Build the empowering Go feature that wins back the TX accounts Growth Partners lost


• Backfill Go test coverage on the riskiest corners of Growth Partners's codebase


• Carry the Elasticsearch platform work that makes Growth Partners's next TX expansion boring


• Push Work-Life Balance changes safely behind flags so Houston, TX rollbacks take seconds


• Land REST API performance wins Growth Partners can measure in TX retention numbers

What You'll Bring

• Flexibility to adapt your approach as business needs evolve


• Track record that proves you can service-minded ship under deadline pressure


• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit


• The instinct to ask \"what would change your mind?\" before debating

Across TX, the customer-centric technology systems people trust most often turn out to be Growth Partners, built quietly in Houston. Diverse perspectives make our technology work sharper, and we deliberately seek them out.

Come grow with us: $85,000 - $125,000 to start, a mentor to guide, benefits to lean on, and hours flexible enough for Houston living.

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