Senior Performance Engineer

at  Backbase

THE JOB IN SHORT

We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to strengthen our teams in our Lending value stream within the R&D department. Their focus is Backbase Loan Origination which supports common unsecured lending products including overdrafts, credit cards, unsecured personal loans and unsecured small business loans.
You will identify, design and implement the best practices for performance engineering processes. Being the subject matter expert, you work with the product development teams to ensure better performing products for millions of users.

• Define SMART KPIs for performance-based NFRs and ensuring that they are understood by all stakeholders involved;
• Design and creating performance test scenarios, proper test data, automated test suites and testing environments;
• Strategically establish the best-in-class performance engineering approach for all software development teams;
• Looking at both short and long term possibilities;
• Influence and convince the development teams to adopt your recommendations and approaches;
• 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