Performance Lead

At Aspire were more than just a FinTech companywere the leading allinone financial operating system built to empower the worlds innovators and entrepreneurs. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance empowering startups and businesses to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018 Aspire has raised over USD 300M across equity and debt from worldclass investors. In 2023 we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent Paypal Ventures LGT Capital Partners Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and empowered more than 50000 businesses using our suite of products.

Aspire has consistently been recognized for excellence earning Best Employer and Startup of the Year by the Asia FinTech Awards in 2022 and 2023 ranked as LinkedIns Top Startup in Singapore and listed on CB Insights Top 100 Global Fintech in 2023 and 2024.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of exentrepreneurs exfounders and highachievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space!

About the Role

We are seeking a Performance Lead to spearhead our performance engineering initiatives while contributing to functional test automation efforts. This role is pivotal to ensuring the scalability reliability and responsiveness of our fintech platform across web API Android and iOS applications.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in designing and implementing robust performance testing strategies and frameworks while also supporting the evolution of our functional automation infrastructure. You will play a key role in driving performance culture optimizing systems and integrating performance testing into Agile workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Strategy & Architecture 75

• Define and implement comprehensive performance testing strategies (load stress endurance capacity).
• Design performance analysis dashboards to identify bottlenecks and provide actionable insights.
• Establish guidelines and baselines for benchmarking latency throughput and scalability.
• Build and maintain performance testing frameworks using tools like JMeter Gatling k6 or similar.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering to analyze test results and recommend improvements.
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.
• Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure scaling to support highvolume fintech operations.

Functional Test Automation 25

• Support the development of automation frameworks across web API Android and iOS.
• Ensure robust integration of automation into CI/CD pipelines for faster releases.
• Optimize test time stability and platformwide parallelization.
• Explore AIbased automation for test failure analysis reporting and prioritization.

Process Optimization & Governance

• Define best practices for performance engineering and contribute to automation coding standards.
• Promote shiftleft testing practices across both performance and functional QA.
• Define and track KPIs/OKRs for system performance efficiency and automation ROI.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools and methodologies for both performance and functional testing.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with Product Engineering DevOps and Security to embed performance from day one.
• Mentor performance engineers and guide team members in automation best practices.
• Promote crossteam ownership and drive POCs for new tools and frameworks.
• Foster a culture of performance and quality ownership across teams.

Requirements

MustHave:

• 8 years of experience with strong emphasis on Performance Engineering and exposure to Test Automation.
• Proven experience in designing scalable performance testing frameworks for Web API and Mobile.
• Handson with performance tools like JMeter Gatling k6 Locust and monitoring tools such as New Relic Dynatrace Grafana.
• Strong understanding of performance monitoring cloud scalability and load balancing.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments with knowledge of planning executing and reporting performance tests.
• Familiarity with functional automation tools and practices.

NicetoHave:

• Experience in fintech banking or other highly regulated domains.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms AWS GCP Azure for performance testing and scaling.
• Exposure to chaos engineering and shiftleft performance testing techniques.
• Understanding of test automation frameworks using tools like Selenium Appium RestAssured.
• Experience designing monitoring dashboards and leveraging analytics for performance insights.

Join us if youre passionate about system performance love tackling scalability challenges and want to make a significant impact in the fintech space!

What we offer

• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Wellness benefit.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
• Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.
  

Equal Opportunity Statement

Aspire is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws.

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