Performance Engineer – Scale, Latency & Resilience

Energy Innovation Corp; Bakersfield (CA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchPad Corp in Bakersfield is seeking a Performance Engineer to optimize high-traffic applications, improve latency, and ensure reliable production systems. You should bring about 4 years of hands-on experience.

The role offers a salary range of $81,000–$123,000 annually with mentoring, comprehensive benefits, and a culture that values direct feedback and steady growth. Responsibilities include re-architecting tech flow, monitoring health, and tracing performance issues across services built

Qualifications

• Familiarity with REST API and related tools or frameworks.
• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads.
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in.
• Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your technology craft.
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions.
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Re-architect the technology flow so Attention to Detail handles ten times Bakersfield's current load
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for scrappy production environments
• Trace a bias-to-action technology bug across three Node.js services to the one bad line
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Pull Critical Thinking telemetry into dashboards LaunchPad Corp leaders actually open
• Bridge REST API and Spring Boot so the two halves of LaunchPad Corp's platform finally talk
• Catch the Vue.js race conditions that only surface under Bakersfield peak traffic

Skills

REST API

Communication

Reliability

Curiosity

Hands-on

Adaptability

Job description

LaunchPad Corp in Bakersfield is seeking a Performance Engineer to optimize high-traffic applications, improve latency, and ensure reliable production systems. You should bring about 4 years of hands-on experience.

The role offers a salary range of $81,000–$123,000 annually with mentoring, comprehensive benefits, and a culture that values direct feedback and steady growth. Responsibilities include re-architecting tech flow, monitoring health, and tracing performance issues across services built