Title- Lead Performance Engineer 10+ Years Profile
Location- Remote on EST
Duration-6+ month contract
Interview- video
Summary
The Senior Performance Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring that large-scale, mission-critical applications—particularly mortgage processing, document automation, BPM workflows, and rules engines—meet stringent performance, scalability, and resiliency goals.
This role requires deep expertise in performance engineering, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and AI-driven analysis.
Additional Responsibilities
- Identify, document, and track performance defects through JIRA.
- Stay current with evolving performance tools, cloud technologies, and AI/ML trends.
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance and perform related duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Expert-level understanding of performance engineering principles, distributed systems, concurrency models, and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong analytical and diagnostic skills with the ability to interpret complex performance data.
- Proven ability to influence architecture and design decisions based on performance insights.
- Experience with AI/ML-based observability, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of mortgage industry workflows, document automation, and rules engines is a plus.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10-18 years of progressive experience in performance engineering and large-scale system optimization.
- Hands-on expertise with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Locust, K6, etc.).
- Strong experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Solid understanding of databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or NoSQL stores) from a performance standpoint.
- Experience with APM/observability platforms and log analysis tools.
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD ecosystems.