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Description:

• Performance Management Software Engineer
• Experience a true engineering culture that has quality and innovation at its heart. We are building a highly flexible and configurable multi-payer health care administration platform that has a competitive market worldwide.
• You will be a lead contributor in a performance management engineering team for this platform.
• The ideal candidate has multiple years of enterprise development experience with a background of analyzing application performance and bottlenecks in API and database transactions.
• Successful candidates have a proven ability to network and lead without direct authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals and evaluate impact to future system performance
• Use tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk as well as Gatling test suites to monitor resource utilization, identify bottlenecks and make architectural or coding suggestions to developers to optimize performance
• Make resource tuning, capacity and intelligent monitoring recommendations based on system data, business input & implications
• Design and implement new ways of testing the performance of new services and technologies, including the mining of production data to test configurable scenarios in real-time performance simulations.
• Requires a performance testing mindset as well as software engineering skills.
• Gather and compare application performance data against service level criteria to assess system performance
• Forecast future application/system capacity needs by leveraging business plans and historical trends and advanced reporting

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional IT experience (a combination of software development and performance optimization and automated testing).
• Interest in understanding best practices in performance optimization
• Practical experience with one or more programming languages - Java, Groovy, Scala, Python
• Familiar with modern software tools, technology, and practices such as GitHub, Jenkins, Intellij, Maven
• Familiar with cloud native applications and deployments into a Kubernetes or Openshift environment
• Experience with one or more modern monitoring and log forwarding tools - Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace
• Familiarity with Gatling, LoadRunner or similar scalable API testing frameworks
• Experience with Agile & CI/CD methodologies and creation of automated performance tests
• Experience analyzing SQL queries for performance bottlenecks and making recommendations
• Excellent communication skills, and an established pattern of continuous learning

Projects the candidate will be working on:

• Claims processing, a Java cloud microservice application. This position is with the performance engineering group, which writes software that stress tests the micro services.

Ideal Background:

• We want to be as specific as possible with our firms so they can find the type of candidate youre looking for. xperience.
• Interested in writing stress testing software and analyzing performance of an application service and making recommendations for how to make it faster.
• Training will be available from other group members

Experience:

• Dynatrace or Datadog or Splunk experience

Top Requirements:

• Please list your expectations regarding years of experience for each requirement
• Java or Groovy or Scala programming language is very helpful, but other languages may be applicable.
• Performance engineering mindset, understanding response time and throughput concepts

Team and Team size:

• 4 USA, 6 India. India functional manager, USA developers dual report to India manager and USA director.

Interview Process:

• 30 minute video phone w/ director. 2nd round will be video with team member

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