Software Engineer - Performance and Tools

We can only consider US Citizens or Green Card holders for this position at this time.

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain in-house synthetic data generation tools.
• Investigate performance issues in enterprise applications.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize performance scripts and test frameworks.
• Validate and improve the scalability and reliability of enterprise applications and cloud-native systems.
• Support quality and development teams with test data generation requirements.
• Learn in-house test data generation tools and enhance their capabilities.
• Develop solutions with an AI-centric approach.
• Design, develop, and execute performance test scenarios.
• Troubleshoot 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3-8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Skills

Programming & Databases

• Previous working experience with Python for backend application development.
• Basic experience with JavaScript for frontend web development.
• Previous working experience with SQL and DB design principles and other database technologies.
• Previous working experience writing and optimizing SQL queries and analyzing database performance.
• Previous working experience working with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and producing quality solutions.

Performance Testing

• Previous working experience with Performance Engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter.

Observability & Monitoring

• Experience with one or more of the following application monitoring tools: Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, and Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Previous working experience analyzing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis.

Preferred Skills

• Good knowledge of Java to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Postgres SQL.
• Knowledge of Ruby/Rails.
• 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.

Work Environment

• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment.
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology.
• May require travel dependent on company needs.

Pay

The annual US base salary range for this position is $123,000 to $132,000. This salary range may cover multiple career levels at HealthEdge. Final compensation will be determined during the interview process and is based on a combination of factors including, but not limited to, your skills, experience, qualifications, and education.

Type of Employment: Full-time, permanent