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PayNearMe · 1 day ago

Senior Performance Engineer - Remote

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$185K/yr - $215K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Helping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability

Write and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platform

Use the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristics

Remove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithms

Roll out changes in a controlled and reversible way

Help us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalability

Work with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)

Working independently, but closely with a few others

If you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management position

Qualification

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Ruby on RailsPerformance EngineeringJavascriptDatabase OptimizationAWSGoDatadogTechnical Leadership

Required

Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experience

Skilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harness

Experience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-ends

Familiarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristics

Experience writing well instrumented code that can be easily monitored (we use Datadog)

Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performance

A proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations

Ability to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environment

Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem

Experience serving as a Tech-Lead

Preferred

Experience with Go is a plus, but not required

Experience with database sharing is a plus

Benefits

Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total

$50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill

$250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup

Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)

Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)

Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Paid parental bonding leave

Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement

401k plan

Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)

Volunteer Time Off

13 scheduled holidays

2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)

Company

PayNearMe

PayNearMe provides a web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments.

Founded in 2009

Santa Clara, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://home.paynearme.com

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