Permanent, Full-Time role
Salary: £30k - £55k per annum

Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already.

Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. Learn more about us here.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Spike at a time when we are growing our Performance practice.

We are looking for Performance Engineers to join us working as part of a team executing effective and professional technical engineering services across our growing client portfolio on different projects. You will use a wide variety of Performance Testing solutions, technologies, and tools and contribute to the achievement of business objectives by executing technical work with a level of supervision.

Key responsibilities:

Contributes to the successful completion of technical areas within projects.
Develops and executes performance testing throughout the complete development lifecycle, from project initiation through to delivery.
Uses agreed standards and tools from agreed specifications, collaborates in reviews of specifications with others as appropriate.
Takes responsibility for a certain technical area and conditions, selecting appropriate technical methods and applications for project use.
Collates and reports information, investigates to define problems more accurately and identify trends and exceptions.
Maintains the status of project responsibilities and works across teams to achieve goals.
Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders. Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.

Required skills:

Experience of delivering performance testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Experience of analysing performance issues in at least one performance test tool and experience of application and infrastructure monitoring tools.
Ability to write Performance test plans, test approach and test reports.
Experience in programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Python.
Shows genuine interest in the business and clients, with a consistent focus to satisfy customer ambitions.
Good client-facing skills, understands customer needs and reliable to deliver exceptional service.
Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing solutions and challenging clients to refine the best outcomes.
Excellent communication skills, translates know-how into plain talking and easy to understand language.
Developing knowledge and skills of technical engineering methodologies and has a good base in performance tools and platforms required to deliver, including JMeter and NeoLoad.
Possesses theoretical knowledge as well as basic/intermediate level of practical knowledge within technical engineering.
Has awareness of new and emerging developments within the technology and/or retail sector.

What we offer:

Personal relationships - We know each other as individuals with social meet ups at least quarterly and a Director open door policy
Technical consultancy - Challenging technical work with varied projects/clients and internal knowledge management forums
True flexibility - Remote first approach delivering as teams for clients with expenses paid if needed to travel away from home
Shared purpose - Owned by practicing consultants with a hand-picked client base in line with Spike principles
Pick and mix benefits – Generous annual benefits allowance giving you the power to choose how and when you engage with benefits including modern perks & discounts
Genuine support – Career coach assigned on joining with career chats when you want them

As well as:

Competitive pay packages
Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + statutory public holidays
Day off for your birthday
L&D allowance and training days
Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month

Spike is an equal opportunities employer