Performance Engineer: Latency & Scalability for Trading

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

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly Pay

Job summary

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

You will build tests, analyze JVM behavior, and partner with teams to drive measurable outcomes, using automation and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 5+ years of experience 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 experience, with deep Core Java knowledge (JVM internals, concurrency, multithreading, memory, garbage collection, and latency).
• Ability to read source code and diagnose bottlenecks using dumps, logs, profilers, metrics, and observability tools; experience building workload generators/utilities/automation with Java, Scala, Python, shell, JMeter, Gatling, or similar tools.

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

Java development

Performance testing

Concurrency

Profiling

JVM internals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

Python

Shell

Job description

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

You will build tests, analyze JVM behavior, and partner with teams to drive measurable outcomes, using automation and observability tools.