RECUR is hiring a
Web3 Staff Performance Engineer (Remote)

Compensation: $28k - $75k estimated

Location: MA Boston, Massachusetts, United States

RECUR is building the future of digital collectibles on-chain, known as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) – the newest Unicorn industry.
We are looking to add a performance engineer to the team that has broad and deep experience load testing, profiling, optimizing, and monitoring cloud platforms and web applications.

What do we at RECUR believe makes a great engineering team?

Here are our core beliefs:

  • It’s important to have team members that care about the team’s results more than their own individual achievements
  • It’s important for leadership to be tolerant of making mistakes
  • It’s important that the team members help, teach, and mentor one another
  • It’s important not to place blame on individuals when things go bad but instead to evaluate as a team how we do it better the next time
  • It’s important to be clear on what that mission is and minimize the distractions on the teams executing on that mission
  • Small teams execute better than big ones, empower small teams with ownership and minimize the dependencies between them
  • It’s important to encourage self-directed innovation

What you will do at RECUR

  • Be the performance engineering expert here at RECUR
  • Develop a performance management program from the ground up
  • Implement solutions with state of the art performance tools (Monitoring, Profiling, Load Testing)
  • Identify performance bottlenecks in our systems before they happen in production
  • Prototype, test, and propose solutions to various performance problems
  • Build monitoring systems to observe the performance of the platforms and applications
  • Build load testing systems using modern tools to identify performance issues
  • Work with many engineers across many teams to enable them to find performance issues and improve overall performance
  • Make our platform and applications more reliable by putting them under load, analyzing bottleneck, and proposing and implementing solutions

What you bring to RECUR

  • You have 8+ years of experience developing software, the last few years with a specialization in performance engineering
  • You know how to optimize performance of web applications end to end, including browser, network, middleware, and databases
  • You have a strong understanding of http caching semantics
  • You are an expert in database optimization and performance tuning
  • You understand how database isolation levels and transactions in general affect performance of a system under load
  • You have scaled systems in AWS using auto scaling and serverless techniques
  • You have expert level knowledge of AWS Aurora (Postgres), specifically with regards to performance and scalability
  • You are an advanced user of DataDog (or similar tools), specifically APM to troubleshoot and the usage of monitors and dashboards to observe and alert on performance issues
  • You are a software engineer with expert level knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Java, JavaScript)
  • You are legally eligible to work in the USA and Canada

Benefits & Perks

  • Commitment to being a remote-first company & embracing remote work best practices
  • Company sponsored Health, Dental and Vision Benefits, 401K with 2% match
  • 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 company holidays and fully paid parental leave
  • Industry focused lunch & learns, swag and the and flexibility to get tooling you need
  • The chance to work with incredibly passionate people on a mission to shape an industry!
  • This is a completely remote role and can work anywhere in the US.
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RECUR

Compensation: $28k - $75k estimated

Location: MA Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Benefits: 401k, Medical Insurance

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