Your Role
- Conduct detailed audits of client websites to identify performance problems.
- Ruthlessly flush out the root cause of site speed problems to make defensible recommendations for remediation.
- Collaborate internally with Project Managers, other Web Performance Consultants, Yottaa's CDN configuration experts.
- Estimate, rant and prioritize client performance opportunities by expected impact and feasibility.
- Communicate performance findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Interface directly with product managers, developers, and QA staff at client companies to help them prioritize, implement, and validate our performance recommendations.
Your Experience
- 5+ years of experience in web development
- A passion for web performance and site speed optimization
- Deep understanding the various metrics used to measure the speed of a website
- Expert working knowledge of Core Web Vitals
- Knowledge of when to use synthetic vs real world performance data and insights.
- Deep understanding of network fundamentals, CDNs, caches, single-page vs multi-page application architectures, client-side vs server-side rendering.
- Working familiarity with performance debugging tools such as Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, WebPageTest, etc. for debugging page load bottlenecks.
- Strong attention to detail and an obsession with quality.
- Clear communication skills in conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus
- Deep familiarity with one or more web frameworks. Please include your tech stack expertise in your application.
- Experience working with Ecommerce websites, and the specific performance challenges that arise in this industry.
