Software Engineer - Performance and Tools
Overview
We can only consider US Citizens or Green Card holders for this position at this time.
Overview:
HealthEdge ® offers AI-powered operational infrastructure for health insurance companies, guaranteeing an enduring financial edge in an increasingly competitive market. We're experiencing strong market momentum, with a growing number of health plans choosing HealthEdge to modernize their operations and compete more effectively. As we expand, we're investing in the people who power that growth, making this a pivotal moment to join us and shape the future of healthcare technology. Learn more at HealthEdge .com.
We are seeking a passionate problem solver to work as a Software Engineer in Performance and Tools team to:
- Enhance and maintain in-house synthetic data generation tools
- Investigate performance issues in enterprise applications
- Develop, maintain and optimize performance scripts and test framework
- Validate and improve the scalability, reliability of enterprise applications and cloud-native systems.
Key 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.
Required Skills
Programming & Databases
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Previous working experience with Python for backend for application development.
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Basic experience with JavaScript for frontend web-development.
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Previous working experience with SQL and DB design principles and other database technologies.
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Previous working experience with writing and optimizing SQL queries and analyze database performance.
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Previous working experience working with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and produce quality solutions.
Performance Testing
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Previous working experience with Performance Engineering concepts.
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Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter.
Observability & Monitoring
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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.
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Previous working experience with the following - analyze logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
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3 - 8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering.
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Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred Skills
Good knowledge of Java to troubleshoot performance issues.
Postgres SQL
Knowledge of Ruby/Rails
Cloud & DevOps
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.
Geographic Responsibility: Remote, US
Type of Employment: Full-time, permanent
FLSA Classification (USA Only): Exempt
Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
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