Application backend Performance Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled  Backend Application Performance Specialist  to take ownership of system performance across our mission-critical backend platforms. You will play a key role in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, optimizing transactional throughput, running and maintaining throughput & transaction performance testing, and ensuring the scalability and responsiveness of our applications in production.

This role requires deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, cloud-native environments, and performance diagnostics across high-load, real-time systems—ideally in banking, payments, or enterprise ERP platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze, diagnose, and resolve backend application performance issues in development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and implement performance testing strategies, including load, stress, and soak tests for backend services.
• Profile and tune Java-based microservices (Spring Boot) to reduce latency, improve throughput, and minimize resource usage.
• Work closely with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to optimize application configurations, cloud resource utilization, and scaling strategies.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Define KPIs and SLAs for backend service performance and ensure they are met consistently.
• Conduct post-incident performance analysis and recommend preventive optimizations.

Requirements

Nice to Have

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunity to lead performance initiatives in a mission-critical environment

Work with a modern tech stack and experienced engineering teams