Description
Are you an experienced Performance engineer with a passion for doing engineering right, care about NFRs as much as features, are customer centric and keen on building great engineering experiences? Then this is the role for you!
About us
Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together, they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers. It’s our mission to change all that.
We build technology that helps more people to invest – and invest well.
Our engineering allows forward-thinking firms to remove the hassle, lower the cost and improve the overall experience of investing – empowering more people to invest and be treated well.
With our embedded investment engine at their core, companies of all shapes and sizes can launch new investment platforms in record quick time – strengthening their proposition, growing their revenue, lowering their costs and improving their customer experience.
We are part of the Octopus Group – founded in 2000 with a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, Octopus has become one of the most disruptive and progressive companies across the financial services and energy sectors. It now has over 2,500 staff, serves 2.5 million customers and is proud to be a B Corp.
The role
We are looking for an experienced performance testing engineer to help shape and drive the development of our load testing framework. You’ll use your expertise to promote best practices and provide our teams with the data they need to make informed decisions on areas that require improvement. This is a hands-on contract role where you’ll play a pivotal part in building out our performance testing capabilities. We’re seeking someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys collaborating on innovative projects, and is eager to mentor others in the team on best practices for performance testing.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in performance testing distributed systems. Our platform is built on AWS, with key technologies such as Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, S3, MongoDB alongside Datadog for monitoring and observability.
On a typical day you will be...
- Working closely with the team to enhance our performance testing capabilities using data-driven insights to highlight areas of focus.
- Understanding our data structures generating seed data to simulate at least 300% of our current data API volumes.
- Developing test scenarios that align with customer goals collaborating with internal external teams defining relevant use cases ensuring that our performance tests are reflective of real-world conditions.
- Presenting test results in clear actionable format supporting teams understanding findings providing recommendations improvement.
- Correlating metrics from key systems such as MongoDB AWS Datadog determining how additional load impacts platform performance identifying potential optimisations refining indexes adjusting data structure considering horizontal vertical scaling options.
You’ll be successful if you...
- Have extensive experience in performance testing particularly beyond API volumetric testing understanding how identify limitations services we use optimise them scale platform’s capacity.
- Have ability dig deeper into AWS performance limitations finding limits platform only beginning understanding why these limits exist crucial For example related logic Lambda perhaps cold start reducing number requests serve per second during burst periods asking right questions providing detailed insights help drive improvements.
- Have extensive experience databases understanding impact design index misuse performance looking beyond basic metrics providing actionable recommendations optimise.
Our culture
We are proud cultivate culture first human environment genuinely listen people about what matters them most As result we’re proud we’ve cultivated transparent inclusive environment encourages diversity thought challenge experimentation We want customers love working us It takes committed culture backed up series non-negotiable operating principles define how work…
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous candid
We have offices London Edinburgh Bath We’re working hybrid team supporting each people choose how work best We’ve always been supportive flexible working focuses delivery impact rather hours worked Don’t just take word it check out Glassdoor page latest reviews Instagram LinkedIn company updates insights from team
Next steps…
Our aim build diverse inclusive company awesome people unique skills passions experiences We encourage everyone join us whatever gender identity race ethnicity sexual orientation age background Please note do not provide sponsorship candidates residing outside UK However welcome applications individuals possess valid work permits allow them work UK If already have right work UK hold eligible permit encourage apply this position If you're ready take skills next level contribute success projects go ahead apply We’d love hear from you! Join team be part exciting journey