At myPOS, we’re all about helping businesses grow and get paid. We make payments simple, smart, and accessible for everyone, but we’re more than just payment solutions—myPOS is a partner in growth. From free multicurrency accounts to powerful e-commerce tools, we’re here to support business owners of all sizes and everyone out there who dreams of starting their own business.
As we are expanding our team, we’re looking for Performance Engineer to help us make a real difference in the Fintech industry. Ready to join us and shape the future of payments? Let’s make it happen!
About the role:
We’re looking for a Performance Engineer to optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of myPOS systems. Your expertise in identifying and resolving bottlenecks will ensure seamless operations, especially in complex environments like card payment processing.
What you’ll do:
Performance Testing and Analysis
- Design, implement, and execute comprehensive performance testing strategies, including load, stress, capacity, scalability, and endurance testing, to evaluate system behavior under varying conditions.
- Leverage industry-standard tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling to simulate realistic user loads and assess application performance. Expertise in JMeter is highly advantageous.
- Analyze performance metrics and system logs to identify bottlenecks, latency issues, and failure points, ensuring root cause identification.
- Prepare in-depth performance testing reports, providing actionable insights and recommendations for improvements.
Optimization and Troubleshooting
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Development, Issuing, Acquiring POS Device Development, Bank Transfers, Data, and IT teams—to diagnose and resolve performance-related challenges effectively.
- Optimize test scenarios, scripts, and code while assisting teams in enhancing application code, database queries, and infrastructure configurations to boost overall system performance.
- Partner with the Architecture team to develop and implement tuning strategies for hardware, software, network, and database components to meet business performance requirements.
Monitoring and Benchmarking
- Establish and maintain performance monitoring tools and real-time dashboards in collaboration with the IT team, enabling continuous insights into system performance.
- Define and enforce performance benchmarks and standards, conducting regular tests to ensure compliance.
- Develop and report performance KPIs to stakeholders, providing transparency and accountability.
Architecture and Scalability
- Work closely with Architecture and Platform Development teams to design scalable, high-performance solutions aligned with organizational growth objectives.
- Contribute to technical infrastructure capacity planning with the IT team, ensuring the systems are equipped to handle projected growth and peak usage scenarios.
- Evaluate third-party integrations and APIs to assess and mitigate performance risks.
Architecture and Scalability
- Document performance test plans, results, and remediation strategies comprehensively, ensuring clear communication of findings and solutions.
- Provide training and mentorship to Development teams, promoting adherence to performance best practices and methodologies.
This role is perfect for you if you have:
- Minimum 5 years in performance and automation testing.
- A bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, or a related field.
- Proficiency in tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, Neoload, OctoPerf, or similar.
- Experience with programming/scripting languages like Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.
- Familiarity with tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or other APM tools will be considered a strong advantage.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and database performance tuning, including indexing, query optimization, and execution plans will be considered a strong advantage.
- Hands-on experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Splunk for performance monitoring will be considered a strong advantage.
- Solid understanding of system architecture, including distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native or hybrid cloud setups will be considered a strong advantage.
- Expertise in diagnosing network latency, I/O issues, and system resource contention and exhaustion will be considered a strong advantage.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps and integrating performance tests into development pipelines will be considered a strong advantage.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills to convey technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and with external vendors.
- Experience with public cloud platforms like GCP (preferred), AWS, Azure, and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Docker.
- Certifications in performance testing tools or relevant cloud certifications.
- Familiarity with security implications of performance optimizations.
- A personal style that demonstrates authority, commitment and consistency, and inspires trust and confidence.
- Fluent in English.
Why you should join myPOS:
- Vibrant international team operating in hi-tech environment
- Annual salary reviews, promotions and performance bonuses
- myPOS Academy for upskilling and training
- Unlimited access to courses on LinkedIn Learning
- Refer a-friend bonus as we know that working with friends is fun
- Individual training and development budget
- Teambuilding, social activities and networks on multi-national level
What we offer:
- Excellent compensation package
- 25 days annual paid leave (+1 day per year up to 30)
- Full “Luxury” package health insurance including dental care and optical glasses
- Meal vouchers of 200 BGN per month
- Fully covered Multisport card
- Free coffee, snacks and drinks at the office
Who we are:
Since 2014 we’ve been all about making payments easier and more accessible for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Whether you’re at the counter, selling online, or on the move, we’ve got businesses covered with smart, accessible and affordable solutions that keep things easy.
Our mission? It’s simple. Help businesses get paid by taking advantage of modern tech and innovative ideas, so payment challenges are a thing of the past.
Pro tip:
Take it easy about meeting every requirement—this job description is just that, a job description! Even if you don’t tick every box, we want you to apply anyway! This is your chance to grow, learn, and build your career with us. We value potential over perfection, and we are all about mutual growth!
Apply by filling in the form below and send your CV in English!
myPOS is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment without discrimination based on age, ancestry, colour, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Your application will be confidentially reviewed in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Personal information will be used solely for the job application and will be stored for a period needed by the application process. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Good luck!
