Performance Test Lead

ViVA Tech Talent; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; A distancia; EUR 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Principal Performance Engineer to own and lead performance testing strategy for a high-growth FinTech company. This role offers competitive compensation of €80,000 plus a performance bonus, unlimited holiday policy, and fully remote work. Candidates should possess 8-10 years of experience in performance engineering, and a strategic mindset focused on scalable systems.

Servicios

Unlimited holiday policy

Fully remote with home setup & broadband budget

Annual learning budget + tuition reimbursement

Healthcare, pension & wellbeing support

Formación

• 8–10 years of performance engineering experience.
• 5+ years in a senior or lead-level role.
• Strong experience with enterprise databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL).

Responsabilidades

• Lead the design and implementation of performance testing strategy.
• Architect realistic test environments for load testing.
• Drive early performance analysis and risk mitigation.

Conocimientos

Performance engineering experience

Knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g. JMeter, BlazeMeter)

Testing APIs, UIs, services

Ability to design replica environments

Familiarity with IaC and DevOps practices

Identifying bottlenecks

Descripción del empleo

Principal Performance Engineer | Build the Future of Performance Engineering

Location : Fully Remote (Spain)

Type : Full-Time | Permanent

Industry : FinTech / Payments

Salary : €80,000 + Bonus

Level : Principal | Hands-On | Strategic Leadership

Do you want to own, shape, and lead a performance engineering function at scale?

ViVA Tech Talent is hiring on behalf of a high-growth FinTech company. They’re looking for a Principal Performance Engineer to define and deliver performance testing environments, tooling, and strategy across a hybrid infrastructure. This is a chance to shape something foundational from the ground up.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Full Ownership – Define and deliver the performance strategy across the business.

Strategic Influence – Guide performance direction across engineering and operations.

Real-World Simulation – Architect environments to replicate production traffic at scale.

Visible Impact – Your work directly supports key systems used by thousands.

Empowered Culture – Work within a curious, outcomes-driven engineering team.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the design and implementation of performance testing strategy across systems and teams.
• Architect realistic test environments for load, stress, and soak testing.
• Work with Engineering and DevOps to build performance into the development lifecycle.
• Translate real user activity into scalable test simulations.
• Build tooling to support system modelling and load generation.
• Tune infrastructure and applications to support high availability and scalability.
• Drive early performance analysis and risk mitigation across product teams.
• Provide visibility of testing results and performance trends to technical leadership.

What You Bring

8–10 years of performance engineering experience within large-scale tech environments.

5+ years in a senior or lead-level role.

Deep knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g. JMeter, BlazeMeter, K6, Kibana).

Strong experience testing APIs, UIs, services, and enterprise databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL).

Ability to design replica environments that mimic production performance.

Familiarity with IaC and modern DevOps practices.

Skilled at identifying bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers.

A pragmatic, strategic mindset with a focus on systems that scale.

What You’ll Get

80,000 + performance bonus

Unlimited holiday policy

Fully remote with home setup & broadband budget

Premium equipment & dual-monitor setup

Annual learning budget + tuition reimbursement

Inclusive culture with healthcare, pension & wellbeing support

A tech-first environment that values ownership, autonomy, and delivery

Ready to Drive Performance at Scale?

Be the architect behind a new performance capability at one of the most forward-thinking FinTechs.

Apply via LinkedIn – don’t miss this unique opportunity!