Senior Performance Engineer- JMeter, JavaScript - Remote

Description \& Requirements Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Performance Engineer. The Senior Performance Engineer leads performance engineering activities across large\-scale healthcare technology programs. This role defines performance test strategies, develops and maintains performance testing frameworks, creates realistic workload models, and evaluates application scalability, reliability, stability, and capacity. The engineer partners with Development, Architecture, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Database Administration, Product, and Business teams to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes, recommend corrective actions, and validate improvements. The role also establishes performance engineering standards, integrates performance validation into CI/CD pipelines, mentor other engineers, and communicates technical and business risks to stakeholders. This is a remote position. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** * Lead the development of software solutions that will meet or exceed business requirements which includes; designing and implementing modules to the system specifications, conducting unit testing, troubleshooting issues, and producing detailed proposals to resolve issues. * Evaluate new coding techniques, tools, modules, and implement as appropriate. * Consult on requirements elicitation and definition. * Design software solutions per systems requirements. * Code software solutions per designs. * Code reviews, unit test, and integrate coded modules. * Assist other developers in resolving issues by providing guidance and training. * Support testing and remediate defects. * Support users through troubleshooting and analysis of production logs and data. * Investigate new solutions, tools, products, and techniques to incorporate into coding standards. * May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area. Minimum Requirements * Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5\+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience. **Job\-Specific Minimum Requirements:** * Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree. * 5\+ years of experience in performance testing and engineering for large\-scale web, mobile, and digital applications, APIs, and microservices, including 2\+ years in a technical lead role. * Strong experience performance testing enterprise applications across diverse API styles (REST, GraphQL, SOAP), protocols (HTTP/S, WebSockets), and architectural patterns (monolithic, microservices, serverless). * Proficiency deploying, executing, and managing JMeter (or comparable performance testing tools) in cloud\-hosted containerized environments, such as Kubernetes on AWS. * Skilled in building workload models from production usage data, correlating results across application and infrastructure tiers, and producing performance reports that quantify risk and support relea