Web Performance Principal

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 10,000+ websites worldwide, including market leading companies like BMW, Decathlon, and Carhartt. Our world-class hybrid 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 You will accompany our customers through the Proof of Concept (PoC). You will be the contact person for speed performance and analysing the speed metrics during and after the implementation of SpeedKit as a Principal Web Performance (all genders) in full time (40 hours). About Your Role The amount of our >100 customers and their >300 million users are growing and therefore more performance data has to be analyzed. The resulting analyses and insights are evaluated with our customers and fed back into development of our product "Speed Kit" to constantly improve it. The profound knowledge of web performance data and testing is necessary for successful customer onboardings and nurturing of our customers. About your potential tasks - Do tech deep-dives with our customers on web performance optimization and our product Speed Kit - Run and evaluate web performance field tests (e.g. new image formats, compression techniques, caching strategies) and evaluate our corresponding real-user monitoring data - Strategically support in establishing the best-in-class web performance approach for all development teams - Influence and convince the development teams to adopt your recommendations and approaches - Provide structural recommendations to ensure identified performance issues will not re-occur - Keep up to date with performance engineering tooling and ensure all development teams are using the latest and greatest tools - Support and guide the resolution of performance-related customer escalations and in Proof of Concept (PoC) phases - Contribute novel ideas to our 5-year product mission for an end-to-end web performance solution based on data & AI (areas like performance alerts with automatics drill-downs, auto-optimization with iterative A/B-tests, data-driven performance recommendations etc.) Your ticket for our spaceship - An intrinsic drive to achieve the best web performance, backed up with several years of relevant experience in web performance testing, engineering or consulting - A proactive mindset in building efficient performance solutions and taking ownership and driving change in your DNA - Good understanding of the network stack and browser environment, including dev tools & tracing - Experience with synthetics performance tools like Lighthouse or WebpageTest - Experience with Google Analytics and tools for real-user-monitoring like mPulse or Instana - English fluently, German minimum C1 - Preferred: Experience with APM tools like Datadog, Loupe, AppDynamics, New Relic Why get in? - Remote-first: You can work 100% remote within Germany, if you want to - We set you up with your remote 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 - Regular team events: Join our non-binding team events - on premise or hybrid - Personal training budget: We help you to grow your career and skills - Flexible monthly benefit budget: can be used on public transport, bike leasing, meal vouchers, gym, gift codes and many more...) - Future-proof pension scheme: feel free to bring your pension scheme with you or let our experts advise you 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 case to prepare for our 2nd meeting 2️⃣... We schedule a 2nd technical interview to talk about the case (90~120 minutes) 1️⃣... If both sides are happy, we will prepare the contract ...0️⃣ You join our rocket ship Your contact person