Senior Performance Engineer

Job Description

Senior Performance Engineer:
On behalf of our financial services client, Procom is searching for a Senior Performance Engineer for a contract-to-hire role. This position is a hybrid position with 4 days onsite at our client’s Southlake, Texas  76092 office. Sponsorship is unavaible at this time. 

Senior Performance Engineer - Job Description:
We're is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join the thinkorswim Performance Engineering team. This role focuses on performance and resiliency initiatives for a Java-based trading platform, emphasizing latency, scalability, reliability, and resiliency. The engineer will build workloads and tools, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements across various environments. Sponsorship is unavaible at this time. 

Senior Performance Engineer - Responsibilities:
• Independently plan and deliver performance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity validation for assigned systems.
• Learn architecture, business flows, dependencies, workloads, and production behavior.
• Define requirements, workloads, acceptance criteria, and reports with partner teams.
• Build performance test scripts, workload generators, mock services, frameworks, and automation.
• Run 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 code, configuration, infrastructure, database, capacity, design, and resiliency improvements.

Senior Performance Engineer - Mandatory Skills:
• 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 experience.
• Deep Core Java knowledge, including JVM internals and concurrency.
• Experience with Splunk, Grafana, or other monitoring tools.
• Ability to manage priorities and work with distributed teams.

Senior Performance Engineer – Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Real-time financial systems (trading) experience.
• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or Docker.
• AI-assisted analysis or intelligent automation experience.
• Usage experience of AI tools with Visual Studio/Idea IntelliJ.
• Understanding of performance best practices and key metrics.

Senior Performance Engineer – Assignment Length:
This is a contract-to-hire position. Sponsorship is unavaible at this time. 

Senior Performance Engineer - Start Date:
ASAP.

Senior Performance Engineer - Assignment Location:
Southlake, Texas, 76092 United States. This is a hybrid position requiring 4 days in the office.

Benefits

Procom provides Basic Life/AD&D insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability, and EAP at no cost to eligible employees after a waiting period. Medical and dental coverage (employee premium contributions), a non-matching 401(k) plan, and additional voluntary coverage are also available. This role includes legislatively required paid leave; no bonus, commission, or equity compensation applies.