Performance Team Lead

Speria • Atlanta, GA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Speria MTech is seeking a hands-on Performance Team Lead to build, scale, and govern performance engineering capabilities across our enterprise SaaS applications. This role will establish the strategic vision for performance testing while remaining deeply involved in workload modeling, performance validation, CI/CD integration, and team development. The ideal candidate is both a technical leader and practitioner who can influence engineering decisions, mentor team members, and ensure performance risks are proactively identified and addressed before release.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Performance Testing or Performance Engineering.
• Proven experience leading performance initiatives for complex enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as: Azure Load Testing, JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, Similar enterprise testing platforms
• Strong experience designing workload models and executing load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD environments and collaborating with DevOps teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to determine root causes across applications, databases, and infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical teams.
• Familiarity with cloud-based and distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or maturing performance engineering programs.
• Experience supporting SaaS applications at enterprise scale.
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing, analytics, or optimization tools.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the organization's performance engineering strategy.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for performance testing and reporting.
• Design and oversee load, stress, endurance, scalability, and performance testing initiatives.
• Create realistic workload models, usage patterns, and performance acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools and technologies.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and release readiness processes.
• Analyze test results and collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Translate performance findings into actionable recommendations and risk assessments.
• Leverage AI-assisted insights to improve performance engineering efficiency and scalability.
• Hire, mentor, and develop Performance Engineers as the team expands.
• Coordinate performance engineering efforts across U.S. and Mexico-based teams.

Benefits

• Influence application scalability, reliability, and release quality.
• Build and mentor a growing specialized engineering team.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product, and QA leadership.
• Join a company whose mission is to help feed the world through innovative technology solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior