Senior Performance Engineer

Senior Performance Engineer

Job details

Posted
02 July 2026

Location
Hoboken, NJ

Reference
998345

Job description

• Strong hands-on experience with Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices.
• Experience building and supporting high-volume, low-latency distributed applications in Banking, Financial Services, Trading, or similar enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience performing Performance Testing using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or k6, including Load, Stress, Spike, Soak, Capacity, and Volume Testing.
• Strong understanding of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals, including:



• Class Loading
• JVM Memory Model (Heap, Stack, Metaspace)
• Execution Engine
• Garbage Collection
• Thread Management
• Memory Management



• Experience tuning JVM performance, analyzing GC behavior, resolving memory leaks, and optimizing application throughput and latency.
• Experience using Java profiling and diagnostic tools such as JProfiler, YourKit, VisualVM, Java Flight Recorder (JFR), or Java Mission Control (JMC).
• Hands-on experience analyzing thread dumps, heap dumps, CPU utilization, and application bottlenecks.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana, or Splunk.

• Strong experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms AWS

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.


Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.