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This role is onsite in Grand Rapids, MI.

We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to lead and manage end-to-end performance engineering delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in performance optimization, team leadership, and stakeholder management, with hands-on experience in performance testing tools and cloud platforms.

Job Description

Your role

• Lead and manage a team of performance engineers and SMEs, providing guidance, mentorship, and ensuring high performance and professional growth.
• Drive end-to-end performance engineering delivery, innovation in performance testing space, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to SAFe methodologies as a certified Agile practitioner.
• Perform performance bottleneck detection, root cause analysis (RCA), and collaborate with product and development teams to track and remediate performance issues.
• Experienced in performance engineering for distributed systems/microservices (K8s/Dockers based applications).
• Performance testing of POS devices and backend services (payment gateways, inventory systems, cloud APIs).
• Familiarity with message queues Kafka, caches (Redis), and databases performance tuning.
• Optimize and monitor Native Mobile applications for performance, profiling, and resource utilization.

Your skills and experience

• 10+ years of experience in performance engineering, with 4+ years managing end-to-end delivery and driving innovation.
• Hands-on experience with LoadRunner and JMeter; knowledge of other industry-standard tools desirable.
• Expertise in at least one APM tool (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, PerfMon, Splunk, JProfiler) and strong root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with Native Mobile application performance optimization and monitoring.
• Exposure to Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with architects and developers for requirement gathering.
• Nice-to-Have:
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration of performance testing.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices performance tuning.