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Senior Performance QA Engineer (AdmiTrade). Remote

Fully RemoteRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 2025

💰 PLN 25,000/yr(PLN 18,000/yr – PLN 25,000/yr)

About the role

About the role:

As a Senior Performance QA Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our fintech platform operates at peak efficiency, handling high-throughput transactions with minimal latency. Your work will directly impact system scalability, reliability, and user experience by designing and implementing performance testing strategies from the ground up.

You will build a leading-edge performance testing framework from scratch, integrate it into CI/CD pipelines, and set ambitious benchmarks that drive our platform's growth. You’ll work with top-tier development teams to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, ensuring our systems can scale with the demands of a fast-moving fintech landscape.

Join us remotely, you can be located anywhere around CET time zone, as our works is 100% offline. The position is full-time.

About ICEO:

We are a venture builder that has been creating innovative startups for the past 10 years. We’re on a mission to accelerate growth, enhance operational capabilities, and secure investments for our portfolio companies. With a team of more than 140 people from 25 countries, we leverage repeatable company-building processes and best practices to derisk scaling and increase the probability of success. Our multiple exits so far stand as a testament to that.

Join us to build the future together!

In this role, you will:

Design, implement, and maintain an automated performance testing framework for high-throughput, low-latency financial systems
Conduct performance testing (load, stress, scalability, endurance, and spike testing) to ensure system stability under real-world conditions
Analyze system performance, detect bottlenecks (CPU, memory, network), and suggest optimizations
Profile and optimize API latency to meet high-performance computing (HPC) standards
Ensure resilience and high availability (99.99%+ uptime) by testing failure recovery mechanisms
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation
Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and SRE teams to align performance goals and optimize system performance
Set up monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) for real-time performance insights
Conduct regression testing daily and post-release to detect performance degradations

What we expect from you:

5+ years of experience in performance testing, automation, and system optimization
Strong understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, and high availability
Hands-on experience with performance testing asynchronous workflows, messaging queues, and event-driven architectures
Proficiency in scripting & automation using Java, Groovy, Kotlin, or Scala
Expertise in profiling & debugging API latency and system performance
Experience in financial services / HFT / algorithmic trading is a big plus
Familiarity with backtesting frameworks or market simulations is a significant advantage
Knowledge of chaos testing and failure injection testing (Bonus)

Why it’s worth a try:

Remote-first company - we enable you to work from anywhere in the world.
Flexible working hours - we have core working hours between 11 am and 3 pm CET, offering you the opportunity to choose when you work outside of those hours
38 days of paid vacation leave, and 14 days of sick leave
Join a forward-thinking team where you have the autonomy to make your own choices and explore new ideas. Become a key player in creating a company characterized by its distinct culture and advanced technology.

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