Performance Engineer – Fintech Company

Who We Are

Recruitment.bg is a boutique IT recruitment company, based in Bulgaria. We aim to work with the top employers in the industry, companies that we thoroughly vet and trust. Our mission is to guide IT professionals toward improved career paths by understanding their skills, crafting employment strategies, and supporting them every step of the way. Placing emphasis on honesty, respect and reliability while delivering exceptional service by ‘going the extra mile’ we build long term relationships with the people and organizations we work with.

About the Company

Our client, a dynamic fintech company committed to empowering businesses of all sizes through simplified payment solutions, is seeking a Performance Engineer to ensure companies systems are scalable, reliable, and optimized for high performance.

Role Overview:

You’ll be responsible for performance testing, system analysis, and architecture tuning to support smooth operations across complex payment platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or Neoload.
• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks and performance issues through metrics analysis.
• Optimize application performance (code, database queries, infrastructure tuning).
• Set up and maintain real-time monitoring dashboards (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk).
• Work closely with development and architecture teams to ensure systems are scalable.
• Define KPIs and regularly validate performance benchmarks.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).

Tech Stack & Requirements:

• 5+ years in performance/automation testing.
• Experience with tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, OctoPerf, etc.
• Programming/scripting skills: Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.
• Strong SQL and query optimization experience.
• Familiarity with monitoring platforms: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Bonus Points:

• Relevant certifications (e.g. cloud, performance tools).
• Experience diagnosing system latency, I/O issues, and optimizing microservices.

Why Join:

• Diverse, international team in a high-tech environment.
• Competitive salary, bonuses, and performance reviews.
• 25–30 days annual leave, luxury health insurance (dental & optical included).
• Monthly 200 BGN meal vouchers, Multisport card, snacks & drinks.
• Training budget.

If you thrive on fine-tuning systems and solving performance puzzles in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.

All applications will be treated as strictly confidential.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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