Performance Engineer

Spike95; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A retail technology company in the United Kingdom seeks a Performance Engineer to join their expanding team. This role will involve delivering performance testing across various projects and contributing to business objectives. Ideal candidates should have experience with performance testing tools and programming languages. The company offers competitive salaries, a remote-first approach, and various employee benefits including a personal career coach.

Benefits

Generous annual benefits allowance

Career coaching

Competitive pay packages

Day off for your birthday

Annual leave entitlement of 25 days

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering performance testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Python.
• Good problem solving skills and experience in proposing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the successful completion of technical areas within projects.
• Develops and executes performance testing throughout the complete development lifecycle.
• Takes responsibility for a certain technical area and selects appropriate methods.

Skills

Performance testing delivery

Performance test tool analysis

Performance test plan writing

Programming experience (C, C#, Java, Python)

Client-facing skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Knowledge of performance tools

Awareness of technology developments

Tools

JMeter

NeoLoad

Job description

Overview

Permanent, Full-Time role. Salary: £30k - £55k per annum. Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already.

Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. Learn more about us here.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Spike at a time when we are growing our Performance practice.

We are looking for Performance Engineers to join us working as part of a team executing effective and professional technical engineering services across our growing client portfolio on different projects. You will use a wide variety of Performance Testing solutions, technologies, and tools and contribute to the achievement of business objectives by executing technical work with a level of supervision.

Key responsibilities

• Contributes to the successful completion of technical areas within projects.
• Develops and executes performance testing throughout the complete development lifecycle, from project initiation through to delivery.
• Uses agreed standards and tools from agreed specifications, collaborates in reviews of specifications with others as appropriate.
• Takes responsibility for a certain technical area and conditions, selecting appropriate technical methods and applications for project use.
• Collates and reports information, investigates to define problems more accurately and identify trends and exceptions.
• Maintains the status of project responsibilities and works across teams to achieve goals.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders. Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.

Required skills

• Experience of delivering performance testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience of analysing performance issues in at least one performance test tool and experience of application and infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Ability to write Performance test plans, test approach and test reports.
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Python.
• Shows genuine interest in the business and clients, with a consistent focus to satisfy customer ambitions.
• Good client-facing skills, understands customer needs and reliable to deliver exceptional service.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing solutions and challenging clients to refine the best outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, translates know-how into plain talking and easy to understand language.
• Developing knowledge and skills of technical engineering methodologies and has a good base in performance tools and platforms required to deliver, including JMeter and NeoLoad.
• Possesses theoretical knowledge as well as basic/intermediate level of practical knowledge within technical engineering.
• Has awareness of new and emerging developments within the technology and/or retail sector.

What we offer

• Personal relationships - We know each other as individuals with social meet ups at least quarterly and a Director open door policy
• Technical consultancy - Challenging technical work with varied projects/clients and internal knowledge management forums
• True flexibility - Remote first approach delivering as teams for clients with expenses paid if needed to travel away from home
• Shared purpose - Owned by practicing consultants with a hand-picked client base in line with Spike principles
• Pick and mix benefits – Generous annual benefits allowance giving you the power to choose how and when you engage with benefits including modern perks & discounts
• Genuine support – Career coach assigned on joining with career chats when you want them

As well as:

• Competitive pay packages
• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + statutory public holidays
• Day off for your birthday
• L&D allowance and training days
• Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month

Spike is an equal opportunities employer