You identify and design the best practices for performance engineering processes. Being the subject matter expert, you work with the product development teams to ensure a better performing product. The skills required as a performance engineer is derived from an intersection of testing, optimisation, systems and software engineering. You also have a coaching and consulting relationship with the teams you work with.
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In order to be successful in this job we expect you to have:
- An intrinsic drive to achieve the best software performance, backed up with several years of relevant experience in performance testing and engineering;
- Being proactive in building efficient performance solutions and take ownership in driving change;
- Experience with performance tools like Gatling, JMeter, Grafana and CI/CD tools like Jenkins;
- Software development experience with Java and basic knowledge on performance testing for microservices;
- Your JVM tweaking skills are the stuff of legend;
- Experience in Docker and Kubernetes is a big plus;
- Relevant experience with relational databases like Oracle or MySQL with the ability to analyse database bottlenecks;
- Experience with deploying services to AWS environments is a plus;
- A strategic thinker that examines issues and creates plans with a long-term perspective.
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THE JOB AT BACKBASE
As the Performance Engineer you work with a group of development teams, with the aim of improving the performance of the product. Working closely with the system engineers and development teams, you look into innovative solutions, do research continually, execute PoCs and share these insights with the relevant stakeholders.
Your main tasks and responsibilities include:
As the Performance Engineer you work with a group of development teams, with the aim of improving the performance of the product. Working closely with the system engineers and development teams, you look into innovative solutions, do research continually, execute PoCs and share these insights with the relevant stakeholders.
Your main tasks and responsibilities include:
Actively involved in defining SMART KPIs for performance-based NFRs and ensuring that they are understood by all stakeholders involved
Actively involved in designing and creating performance test scenarios, automated test suites and testing environments
Strategically establish the best-in-class performance engineering approach for all software development teams
Influence and convince the development teams to adopt your recommendations and approaches, with a strong preference towards making performance testing part of the teams’ continuous integration process
Provide structural recommendations to ensure identified performance issues will not reoccur
Keep up to date with performance engineering tooling and ensure all development teams are using the latest and greatest tools
Contribute to the performance engineering discipline, ensuring that guidelines are interpreted correctly in all the development teams
Support and guide the resolution of performance-related customer escalations
Actively involved in defining SMART KPIs for performance-based NFRs and ensuring that they are understood by all stakeholders involved;
Actively involved in designing and creating performance test scenarios, automated test suites and testing environments;
Strategically establish the best-in-class performance engineering approach for all software development teams;
Influence and convince the development teams to adopt your recommendations and approaches, with a strong preference towards making performance testing part of the teams’ continuous integration process;
Provide structural recommendations to ensure identified performance issues will not reoccur;
Keep up to date with performance engineering tooling and ensure all development teams are using the latest and greatest tools;
Contribute to the performance engineering discipline, ensuring that guidelines are interpreted correctly in all the development teams
Support and guide the resolution of performance-related customer escalations. apply now
Your main tasks and responsibilities include:
As the Performance Engineer you work with a group of development teams, with the aim of improving the performance of the product. Working closely with the system engineers and development teams, you look into innovative solutions, do research continually, execute PoCs and share these insights with the relevant stakeholders.
Your main tasks and responsibilities include:
Actively involved in defining SMART KPIs for performance-based NFRs and ensuring that they are understood by all stakeholders involved
Actively involved in designing and creating performance test scenarios, automated test suites and testing environments
Strategically establish the best-in-class performance engineering approach for all software development teams
Influence and convince the development teams to adopt your recommendations and approaches, with a strong preference towards making performance testing part of the teams’ continuous integration process
Provide structural recommendations to ensure identified performance issues will not reoccur
Keep up to date with performance engineering tooling and ensure all development teams are using the latest and greatest tools
Contribute to the performance engineering discipline, ensuring that guidelines are interpreted correctly in all the development teams
Support and guide the resolution of performance-related customer escalations
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