Web Performance Engineer

Your high speed mission About Baqend Slow websites suck Of 3.5 hours you spend online each day, 20 minutes are wasted waiting for websites to load. In your life, you will waste one whole year. Join our mission of building a web without loading times to make all Internet users happier. Our product Speed Kit is the all-in-one page speed tool and accelerates websites worldwide, including market leading companies like BMW, Zwilling and GANT. Our world-class team uses the latest web technology trends to make our customer websites up to 4x faster and to improve the user experience for 300 million users per month. Sounds exciting? Come on board and help us so that no one has to suffer from lost time We have many exciting ideas for taking Speed Kit to the next level, that’s why we are currently looking for further addition as a Web Performance Engineer (all genders) in full time (40 hours). About your role To give you a better understanding of what this position consists of, we would like to share a sneak peek of a day in life… The team will come together in the morning and you get assigned to a new customer. You start by checking out the website to get a feel for the current state of the performance as well as the user experience. You identify bottlenecks using your initial check-up and configure Speed Kit to tackle them as best as possible. You will likely also stumble across frontend issues with lazy loading, content shifts, or else and will come up with solutions to improve upon those. You share your (custom) solutions with the team to probably have them find their way back into our product or become the template for additional tooling you will develop. You finish your day off by helping one of our existing customers adjust the configuration for the frontend rework and celebrating with a cold drink on our roof terrace. About your potential tasks From this little sneak peek, let’s summarize the tasks you will be confronted with: Analysis of customer websites for performance bottlenecks and/or UX problems Optimizing the sites’ performance using Speed Kit Developing custom solutions to tackle frontend issues (like slider frameworks, flicker control, lazy loading, etc.) Developing internal and external tooling to either empower our customers or automate integration processes Monitor existing customers and adjust the config to maintain the best possible performance Your ticket for our spaceship We like to keep this part as open as possible since the most important thing is your motivation to tackle new challenges coming our way each day and with that, to grow and keep on learning. Therefore, we do not care if you have a degree, professional education, or are changing your career. Nevertheless, we would like you to have experience with web basics like HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you have heard of web performance metrics and potentially did some optimizations already you are more than prepared to give it a try. Why get in? Remote-first: You can work 100% remote within Germany, if you want to. We set you up with your office work station from screen to office chair Pick your OS: You can freely choose your OS between Mac, Windows or Linux Beautiful office: Work in the heart of Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel Pet-friendly office: You’re always welcome to bring a furry friend Awesome coworkers: Join a competent, humorous crew Flexible work: Work on a full-time or part-time schedule Flat hierarchies: The best ideas win, no matter by whom Event slots: Several times a year you can vote on what to do - haven't you always wanted to go karting with your colleagues? Vote for it Speed.Fest: Every quarter we all get together at our HQ in Hamburg for workshops, good food, events and a great time. Personal training budget: We help you to grow your career and skills Future-proof pension scheme: feel free to bring your pension scheme with you or let our experts advise you Our Tech Stack Don’t worry, we do not expect that you know or use all of these tools and technologies: Data Analysis & Reporting : Hex Technologies (Jupyter-Based notebook and dashboard engine with direct AWS Connectors), AWS Athena, SQL, Python, Pandas, Seaborn, Altair, Vega-Lite, Grafana, BigQuery Data Engineering, Backend & DevOps: Java/JVM, Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Go, AWS (diverse Services), MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Fastly, Nginx, Flink, Grafana, Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm, Redis, Varnish Frontend: Service Worker (the majority of Speed Kit), TypeScript & JavaScript, Selenium/Browserstack/Jenkins, Puppeteer, WebPagetest Countdown 6️⃣... You share your CV, LinkedIn or Xing profile with us 5️⃣... We schedule a first (video-) call (15~30 minutes) 4️⃣... We schedule a 1st technical interview to get to know each other (30~60 minutes) 3️⃣... We send you a (coding-) case to prepare for our 2nd meeting 2️⃣... We schedule a 2nd technical interview to talk about the (coding-) case (90~120 minutes) 1️⃣... If both sides are happy, we will prepare the contract ...0️⃣ You join our rocket ship Your contact personBaqend develops a cloud service that uses innovative caching algorithms to minimize loading times of websites. Publishers, shops, startups, and SMEs all face the challenge of competing with giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Baqend provides them with a technical platform to not only catch up with the market leaders but to turn page speed into their competitive advantage. Baqend’s Speed Kit is integrated into a website as a simple script to accelerate it by 50–300%. With Baqend Platform, new websites and mobile apps can be developed directly against a distributed cloud backend to achieve optimal performance right from the start. The mission of the research spin-off is to enable a web without loading times. Baqend is based in Hamburg, Germany.