Senior Performance Engineer

  • BHO Tech
  • San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sep 01, 2023
Full time Engineering

Job Description

WHAT WE'VE GOT GOING ON 
We are seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to support our rapidly growing business. You’ll have a pivotal role in designing and implementing performance engineering culture, system, and tools in a fast-paced environment. The key to this role is your proven ability to influence, mentor, and coach engineering teams to build out our Platform with an eye for performance. The ideal candidate has a background being a strong developer who can influence and shape the patterns our teams will use to deliver value to the business. As a data-driven company your ability to convey approaches via data is paramount.

The engineering team in the company is a tight-knit group of high-performers. We value simplicity in both our code and our user interfaces. We don’t believe in large teams; we opt for small groups that move fast, communicate clearly, and achieve more. We try to choose the right tool for the job, not one tool to solve all problems. We make a huge impact on product direction, we experiment, and we iterate rapidly.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO 
Be an evangelist for performance engineering in the company
Partner with engineering leadership to buildout data driven roadmap items to address performance in critical areas 
Create tools, dashboards, and performance test plans 
Mentor and grow our engineering acumen in areas of performance engineering

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE COMPANY
7-10 yrs engineering experience 
2+ years specializing in areas of performance engineering 
Established performance test environments and frameworks 
Experience evangelizing performance engineering techniques within a data driven engineering culture 
Deep hands on experience with JVM tuning techniques 
Supported efforts in performance testing and improvement in common JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, JQuery) 
Experience with Ruby (JRuby) and JavaScript 
Extremely well versed in solving data access performance challenges across SQL data stores 
Experience in AWS and other cloud providers when exploring different approaches to performance engineering 
Experience with distributed architectures 
Passionate about driving a performance engineering culture 
Self-motivated; independent, organized and proactive 
Flexible and adaptable when working across multiple engineering teams

Skills

Software Architecture, Web Performance Optimization, Performance Tuning, Software Performance Engineering, Performance Engineering

Compensation

$120K – $200K and higher (DOE)
0.01% – 1.0%

Visa Sponsorship

Not available


Best Regards,
Kris
Kris Young
Account Manager
BHO Tech
San Jose, San Francisco CA
Phone: 866 816-1615 x 823
kris@bhotech.com
www.bhotech.com