Software Engineer - Performance and Tools

Summary

HealthEdge offers AI-powered operational infrastructure for health insurance companies and is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Performance and Tools team. The role focuses on enhancing synthetic data generation tools, investigating enterprise application performance issues, developing performance testing frameworks, and improving the scalability and reliability of enterprise and cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

• Support quality and development teams with the test data generation requirements
• Learn in-house test data generation tool and enhance its capabilities
• Develop solutions with an AI-centric approach
• Design, develop, and execute performance test scenarios
• Troubleshooting performance issues by analyzing application, infrastructure, and database bottlenecks
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams to resolve performance issues
• Integrate AI/ML techniques into performance testing
• Integrate observability tools in performance analysis and related processes
• Perform Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance (Soak), Volume, and Scalability testing
• Create performance reports, reporting frameworks and provide optimization recommendations

Skills

• We can only consider US Citizens or Green Card holders for this position at this time
• Previous working experience with Python for backend for application development
• Basic experience with JavaScript for frontend web-development
• Previous working experience with SQL and DB design principles and other database technologies
• Previous working experience with writing and optimizing SQL queries and analyze database performance
• Previous working experience working with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and produce quality solutions
• Previous working experience with Performance Engineering concepts
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter
• Experience with one or more of the following application monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, and Google Cloud Monitoring
• Previous working experience with the following - analyze logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3 - 8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology
• May require travel dependent on company needs
• Good knowledge of Java to troubleshoot performance issues
• Knowledge of Ruby/Rails
• Good knowledge of AWS and GCP
• Good understanding of Git repositories and GitLab Pipelines
• Experience working with CI/CD environments
• Knowledge of APIs, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Qualifications

Must Haves

• We can only consider US Citizens or Green Card holders for this position at this time
• Previous working experience with Python for backend for application development
• Basic experience with JavaScript for frontend web-development
• Previous working experience with SQL and DB design principles and other database technologies
• Previous working experience with writing and optimizing SQL queries and analyze database performance
• Previous working experience working with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and produce quality solutions
• Previous working experience with Performance Engineering concepts
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter
• Experience with one or more of the following application monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, and Google Cloud Monitoring
• Previous working experience with the following - analyze logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3 - 8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology
• May require travel dependent on company needs

Nice to Haves

• Good knowledge of Java to troubleshoot performance issues
• Knowledge of Ruby/Rails
• Good knowledge of AWS and GCP
• Good understanding of Git repositories and GitLab Pipelines
• Experience working with CI/CD environments
• Knowledge of APIs, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Benefits

• Remote work in the US