Job Overview

Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for Software Performance Engineer who will be responsible for supporting the design and implementation of a performance testing framework to facilitate the automated testing of both our current and future enterprise applications using industry standard performance testing tools. You will work closely with the product teams to develop performance strategies, test plans, and execution of test cases within the CI/CD pipeline and independently. The role is involved with troubleshooting performance issues, root cause analysis, and primarily driving issues to appropriate resolutions.

What You’ll Do

• Performance Testing: Define performance test strategies and test plans, in addition to designing and executing performance tests 
• Performance Monitoring: Implement and maintain performance monitoring systems to proactively identify and address performance degradation issues in lower environments 
• Performance Analysis: Identify bottlenecks, scalability issues, and system limitations
• Performance Tuning: Research solutions to optimize application performance through caching, load balancing, database optimization, and code profiling techniques 
• Debugging: Use debugging tools and techniques to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system performance. 
• Communication: Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including software engineering teams and business leaders. Share best practices, coding techniques, and performance architecture design guidelines across the technology organization.
• Training: Provide training and support teams with on performance strategies, test plans, k6 framework, k6 test scenarios.
• Analytical Thinking: Identify and solve complex problems with software engineering teams and colleagues on the Performance Testing Team 
• Continuous Learning: Proactively engage in learning about emerging technologies and trends in the performance engineering space. 

What You’ll Need to Succeed

We’re looking for someone who:

• Can work remotely or from an Applied Systems office

Your experience should include some or all of the following:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, technology, or equivalent work experience 
• 4 years of software engineering or performance engineering working experience. 
• 2 years of performance testing experience or extensive knowledge in performance testing, design and strategy with different technologies including relational databases. 
• 2 Years experience working with JavaScript or TypeScript
• 2 Years experience working with Object Orientated Programming languages – Java / C#
• Experience with performance analysis, tuning, and optimization techniques for web-based applications, APIs, and databases. 

Additionally, you may have;

• Experience with UI performance tools such as Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium. 
• Experience with Performance Monitoring Tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace or Grafana. 
• Familiarity with designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting performance issues in distributed systems or microservices architectures. 
• Proficiency in performance testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling). 
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD design, implementation, and quality gating. 

What You’ll Gain

Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.

What We Value

We strive for excellence at every turn to be the best at what we do. We invest in talent, care about our people, and are empowered by the results of our work. We fulfill the promise of insurance – safeguarding and protecting what matters most in people’s lives. And there is no more important job than that.

Our focus on the workforce, workplace and marketplace gives us a qualified individual in an environment in which they can be productive while we maintain our position in the industry. To help drive that change toward a vibrant, modern workplace, we have employee-driven networks with commonalities in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and military status.

Who We Are

For more than 35 years, Applied Systems has created innovative technology for the global insurance industry. Today, we are a rapidly growing software leader that is revolutionizing the way agencies and brokerages succeed.

We are smart and curious people in a tech-first environment that champions bold and powerful thinking. We are transforming a complex industry through digitization, automation, and innovative new partnerships. Together we are driving the industry fearlessly forward.

It’s an exciting time at Applied. You can do big things here, in an environment that supports creative thinking and bold ideas. Visit http://www.AppliedSystems.com for more information on how you can challenge what’s possible.

EEO Statement 

Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don’t discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.