Senior Performance Engineer - Distributed Payments

ACI Worldwide, Inc.; Norcross (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunities for growth and career development

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Job summary

ACI Worldwide, Inc. is seeking a Performance Engineer to validate non-functional requirements across a distributed payments platform. The role involves defining performance tests, analyzing results, and ensuring the system meets high availability and integrity standards.

Qualified candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and proficiency in performance testing tools like JMeter. A strong understanding of Java is also needed, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing performance and load tests for distributed systems.
• Proficiency with JMeter or comparable performance testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and validate non‑functional requirements—performance, scalability, availability.
• Design, build, and maintain test suites using JMeter or similar tools.
• Analyze results to identify bottlenecks and regressions across services.

Skills

Performance testing

Java

Analytical skills

JMeter

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

JMeter

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

MongoDB

Job description

ACI Worldwide, Inc. is seeking a Performance Engineer to validate non-functional requirements across a distributed payments platform. The role involves defining performance tests, analyzing results, and ensuring the system meets high availability and integrity standards.

Qualified candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and proficiency in performance testing tools like JMeter. A strong understanding of Java is also needed, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills.