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Senior Performance Lead Engineer

2 days ago Hyderabad, India

About InvoiceCloud

InvoiceCloud is a fast-growing fintech leader recognized with 20 major awards in 2025, including USA TODAY and Boston Globe Top Workplaces, multiple SaaS Awards wins for Best Solution for Finance and FinTech, and national customer service honors from Stevie and the Business Intelligence Group. Judges also highlighted our mission to reduce digital exclusion and restore simplicity and dignity to how people pay for essential services, as well as our leadership in AI maturity and responsible innovation. It’s an award-winning, purpose-driven environment where top talent thrives. To learn more, visit InvoiceCloud.com

Job Details 
The Senior Performance Lead Engineer is responsible for strengthening the reliability, scalability, and performance of InvoiceCloud’s cloud-native platform. This role provides technical leadership across performance testing, performance engineering, observability, and distributed systems, influencing multiple engineering teams and product areas. 
 
As a hands-on technical leader, you will define performance strategy, architect test frameworks, drive tooling and observability improvements, and partner with engineering, platform, and product leaders to ensure the platform meets demanding customer and business expectations. This role has broad influence across architecture, delivery, and production readiness. 
 
Success Profile 
At InvoiceCloud, success is anchored in our core competencies. These competencies guide how every employee delivers impact across their role 
 
Strategic 
  • Defines and evolves performance, reliability, and scalability strategy aligned with platform and business goals. 
  • Establishes performance acceptance criteria, workload models, and benchmarking standards for distributed systems. 
  • Ensures performance considerations are embedded into architecture reviews, design discussions, and release readiness processes. 
  • Partners with engineering and product leadership to shape long-term reliability and performance roadmaps. 
  • Anticipates scaling risks and systemic bottlenecks before they impact customers. 
 
Results-Driven 
  • Leads end-to-end performance, load, stress, resiliency, and scalability testing for complex, cloud-native systems. 
  • Improves system throughput, latency, uptime, and stability across microservices and Kubernetes environments. 
  • Conducts deep-dive analysis of performance failures and production degradations, driving corrective and preventive actions. 
  • Uses data from benchmarks, tests, and production telemetry to deliver measurable improvements in system behavior. 
  • Ensures performance engineering outcomes translate into improved customer experience and platform confidence. 
 
Collaboration 
  • Serves as a trusted performance expert for engineering, architecture, platform, SRE, and operations teams. 
  • Works closely with SRE and platform teams to mature monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry frameworks. 
  • Partners with engineers to remediate performance bottlenecks across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers. 
  • Mentors engineers on performance testing, capacity planning, and designing systems for scale and resilience. 
  • Leads cross-team performance initiatives and reliability programs spanning multiple product areas. 
 
Communicates Effectively  
  • Clearly communicates performance risks, findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
  • Translates complex performance data into actionable insights that inform engineering and product decisions. 
  • Facilitates alignment across teams during performance reviews, incident analysis, and release readiness discussions. 
  • Documents performance strategies, standards, and outcomes to support shared understanding and consistency. 
  • Influences architectural decisions through clear, evidence-based performance guidance. 
 
Requirements 
  • Extensive experience in performance testing and performance engineering for distributed, cloud-native applications 
  • Expert-level proficiency with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, or similar 
  • Strong experience with Azure cloud environments, .NET-based systems, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures 

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Hands-on expertise using APM tools (New Relic preferred) for performance analysis and tuning 
  • Strong SQL performance tuning skills, including indexing, query optimization, and experience with sharded databases 
  • Deep understanding of observability principles, including metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets 
  • Experience developing reusable performance automation frameworks and test harnesses 
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues across application, database, container, and infrastructure layers 
  • Ability to influence architectural decisions and lead technical discussions with senior engineering stakeholders 
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    Preferred: 
    • Experience in FinTech, billing, payments, or other high-throughput transactional platforms 
    • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging, and release engineering practices 
    • Experience leading cross-team performance or reliability initiatives 
    • Knowledge of SRE principles and production readiness standards 

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    Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, India
    Job ID: 7565649003
    Employment Type: OTHER
    Posted: 2026-01-06T18:35:57

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      • Parental Benefits

        • Work Flexibility

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