Point

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404 Employees

About the Company

Making homeownership more valuable and accessible. Point is the leading home equity platform for homeowners and home buyers seeking an alternative to traditional home financing. Our flagship product, the Home Equity Investment (HEI), empowers homeowners to unlock their equity in order to eliminate debt, get through periods of financial hardship, and diversify their wealth – without adding to their monthly expenses. Point’s HEI enables investors to access a previously untapped asset class – owner-occupied residential real estate. Point is a nimble, fast-growing fintech company backed by top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Westcap, and Ribbit Capital. We’re proud of our employee-centric culture, where every employee is empowered to make a positive impact on the future of the company and the lives of homeowners. For more information about Point or to apply for an HEI, visit point.com. NMLS ID 1610752. Equal Housing Opportunity. For licensing information, go to www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org.

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Company Name: Point
Job Title: Performance Engineer
Job Description: **Job Title** Performance Engineer **Role Summary** Design, implement and maintain performance monitoring, profiling and optimization processes across distributed backend services. Identify bottlenecks, lead remediation efforts, and collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable system architecture. **Expectations** - Drive measurable improvements in latency, throughput and resource utilization. - Deliver actionable insights and automation that reduce incident response time. - Champion performance best‑practice adoption across the engineering organization. - Maintain and evolve tooling supporting continuous delivery and observability. **Key Responsibilities** - Diagnose and resolve performance issues in distributed systems, APIs, and databases. - Build and maintain internal dashboards, profiling pipelines and alerting frameworks. - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design efficient, scalable solutions. - Extend CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks for faster, more reliable releases. - Lead incident investigations, root‑cause analysis and long‑term remediation plans. - Advocate performance optimization practices throughout the organization. **Required Skills** - 5+ years in software or platform engineering focused on high‑performance systems. - Proficient in at least one backend language (Ruby, Python, Go). - Deep knowledge of distributed systems, caching, database tuning and architecture. - Hands‑on experience with profiling (e.g., pprof, JProfiler), load testing (e.g., k6, Locust) and monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana). - Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Excellent analytical, communication and collaboration skills. **Required Education & Certifications** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.