BVGroup
Performance Lead
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Performance Lead | Gibraltar | On-site
BVGroup brings over 80 years of expertise to every bet, delivering technology-driven betting and gaming experiences to a global audience.
BetVictor is our flagship B2C brand, complemented by multiple partner brands we manage and service such as Heart Bingo, talkSPORT BET to name but a few. Our SaaS platform is fully developed and ready to deploy, requiring minimal setup and no complex configuration.
Join us at BVGroup and make an impact in a fast-paced, global industry. Collaborate with passionate experts, tackle exciting challenges, and help define the next generation of online sports betting and gaming.
Purpose Of The Role
As a Performance Lead, you will take ownership of performance engineering and testability practices across our technology platform, helping to ensure our systems remain reliable, scalable and resilient as the business continues to grow. The role combines hands-on performance engineering with a broader responsibility for testability strategy.
Working closely with Engineering Leadership and development teams, you will identify opportunities to improve system performance, testing capabilities and observability, while helping embed performance engineering into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
This is a highly collaborative role where you will influence engineering practices across multiple teams, support major releases and key sporting events, and help ensure our platforms are prepared to perform under high demand. You will work across a wide range of engineering teams and have the opportunity to influence not just individual systems, but the engineering practices and capabilities used across the wider organisation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Leading performance engineering initiatives across the platform to improve reliability, scalability and system performance.
- Identifying performance and testability risks early and working with engineering teams to implement effective solutions.
- Providing guidance on architecture and system design to improve observability, testability and operational efficiency.
- Planning, executing and supporting performance, load and stress testing for critical systems and major business events.
- Analysing performance test results, production metrics and system behaviour to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
- Collaborating with development teams to address performance issues and embed best practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Developing and maintaining the tools, environments and infrastructure required for effective testing and performance monitoring.
- Expanding automated quality gates and integrating performance and API testing into CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Driving improvements that make testing more reliable, repeatable and efficient across the platform.
- Supporting major releases and peak traffic periods, monitoring platform performance and providing recommendations to Engineering Leadership and stakeholders.
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Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing or a related engineering discipline.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability and modern platform architectures.
- Experience designing and executing performance, load and stress tests for complex applications and services.
- Experience working with performance testing tools such as Gatling or similar frameworks.
- Good understanding of observability practices, including monitoring, metrics, logging and tracing.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Experience driving improvements and influencing engineering teams to adopt best practices.
- Good understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, automated testing and deployment processes.
How We Hire
Our interviews are a two-way process, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational, and we want to get the best from you, so come at us with questions and be curious.
In the event that we receive sufficient applications for the role this vacancy may be subject to early closure. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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