Performance Engineer - Java Latency & Resiliency Onsite 4x/wk

ManpowerGroup; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

Health Savings Account

Health Flexible Spending Account

Dependent Care Flexible Spending Plan

Supplemental Life Insurance

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Business Travel Insurance

401(k), Plus Match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Performance Engineer to join the thinkorswim Performance Engineering team. You will independently plan and deliver performance and resiliency initiatives for a Java-based trading platform, focusing on latency, scalability, reliability, and resiliency.

The role requires onsite work in Southlake, TX four days a week, with Ann Arbor, MI as a backup option. You will own end‑to‑end validation, build dashboards, and collaborate with partner teams to drive measurable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 5+ years in performance, scalability, software engineering, or production performance analysis.
• Strong experience with performance, scalability, failover, recovery, and resiliency testing.
• At least 2 years of hands-on Java development with Core Java knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Independently plan and deliver performance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity validation for assigned systems.
• Learn architecture, business flows, dependencies, workloads, and production behavior to establish a strong baseline for testing and recommendations.
• Define requirements, workloads, acceptance criteria, and reporting with partner teams to ensure measurable outcomes.
• Build performance test scripts, workload generators, mock services, frameworks, and automation; execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, recovery, degradation, and resiliency tests.
• Analyze source code, JVM behavior, system resources, databases, networks, logs, metrics, and end-to-end latency; recommend and validate improvements across code, configuration, capacity, design, and resiliency patterns (e.g., CircuitBreakers, Shapers, LoadBalancers & Failover).

Skills

Performance testing

Java performance tuning

Latency analysis

Observability tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

Java

Python

Shell

Job description

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Performance Engineer to join the thinkorswim Performance Engineering team. You will independently plan and deliver performance and resiliency initiatives for a Java-based trading platform, focusing on latency, scalability, reliability, and resiliency.

The role requires onsite work in Southlake, TX four days a week, with Ann Arbor, MI as a backup option. You will own end‑to‑end validation, build dashboards, and collaborate with partner teams to drive measurable