Performance Lead

At Aspire, we’re more than just a FinTech company—we’re the leading all-in-one financial operating system built to empower the world’s 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 world-class 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 50,000 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 LinkedIn’s 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 ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers 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 high-volume 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 execution time, stability, and platform-wide parallelization.
• Explore AI-based automation for test failure analysis, reporting, and prioritization.

Process Optimization & Governance

• Define best practices for performance engineering and contribute to automation coding standards.
• Promote shift-left 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 cross-team ownership and drive POCs for new tools and frameworks.
• Foster a culture of performance and quality ownership across teams.

Requirements

Must-Have:

• 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.
• Hands-on 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.

Nice-to-Have:

• 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 shift-left 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 you're 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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