Performance Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Performance, Jmeter, Gatling, Java Code, SQL, Appium, Selenium)

Overview:

• Leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”.

Scope:

• Seeking a sharp performance execution engineer with 3-5 years of relevant experience, a strong technical foundation and a hands-on mindset, able to work closely with the broader engineering team across the full development and deployment lifecycle, apply proven performance engineering best practices, and drive their execution in partnership with both platform and product teams.

Our current technical environment:

• Software: Java (enterprise), JMeter, Gatling, Taurus, BlazeMeter, Appium/Selenium, Elastic/Kibana, SSMS, IntelliJ/VS Code, Linux, Jira, Git, GitHub
• Cloud Architecture: Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
• Frameworks/Others: JVM, SQL & NoSQL databases, KQL (Kibana Query Language), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

What you’ll do:

• Participate in performance execution activities for existing and new products in the cognitive execution portfolio.
• Define and maintain performance test strategy, test plans, test specifications, workload models, and execution approach documents.
• Design, build, review, and enhance performance test scripts using enterprise-grade tooling and frameworks.
• Execute performance, load and benchmark tests and provide timely status reporting during active quarterly release cycles.
• Publish performance test reports and communicate findings/issues to infrastructure and development teams for triage and resolution.
• Participate in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Clearly communicate impediments and actively seek support from team members to overcome obstacles.

What we are looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (or equivalent practical experience).

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in software/performance engineering, ideally progressing from test engineering into performance engineering.
• Strong enterprise Java background with hands-on performance engineering execution experience.
• Demonstrated ownership, problem-solving ability, and capability to convert technical needs into practical performance solutions.
• JMeter, Gatling, Taurus, or similar load/performance testing tools: Intermediate.
  • Able to design, modify, and maintain performance test scripts.
  • Experience with BlazeMeter (or similar) as an execution/orchestration platform for test runs and result analysis.
• Java code comprehension for performance analysis: Intermediate.
  • Create performance test scenarios aligned to application behavior.
  • Understand why specific code patterns can cause performance issues.
• Appium/Selenium for UI performance testing.
• SQL and database performance tuning: Intermediate to expert.
  • Prevent slow queries and optimise SQL for faster execution.
  • Identify bottlenecks, including locking/contention.
  • Strong fundamentals in indexing, transactions, locking behaviour, and execution plan analysis.
  • Diagnose root causes and improve query performance.
• SQL and NoSQL database understanding.
  • Trade-offs, best-fit use cases, and implementation examples.
• JVM fundamentals: Intermediate.
  • Memory leaks: what they are and how to troubleshoot.
  • Garbage collection (GC) impact on latency and throughput.
• Observability and monitoring tools: Intermediate (hands-on).
  • Practical experience with Elastic/Splunk/Datadog (or equivalent).
  • Ability to query application logs in Elastic/Kibana and write KQL (or equivalent queries).
  • Extract and interpret performance metrics such as CPU, memory, latency, and throughput.
• Tools Familiarity: Linux, Jira, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, IntelliJ/Eclipse, SSMS.
• Azure (or equivalent cloud platform): Beginner to Intermediate. Kubernetes and Docker concepts.
• Nice to Have
  • Warehouse Management Solutions (WMS) domain knowledge.
  • Supply chain domain understanding.

Our Values

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Experience Level

Mid Level