Performance Engineer

100% Remote

About Point

✨ Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.

✨ Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.

✨ Game-changing Product: We're building a category defining company in home equity. We’ve earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 15,000+ customers.

✨ Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.

✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in Canada, while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.

About the role

We’re looking for a Platform Performance Engineer to join our Product Platform Engineering team. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of optimizing the reliability and performance of Point’s platform. You’ll identify and resolve system-level bottlenecks, develop tools and frameworks for performance monitoring, and collaborate with product teams to ensure seamless scalability and efficiency across our systems.

This is a highly cross-functional role where your work will directly enhance the stability and speed of the technology that supports Point’s core business.

Your responsibilities

• Diagnose, analyze, and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems, APIs, and databases.
• Build and maintain internal tools, frameworks, and dashboards that measure and improve system performance.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design and implement scalable, efficient solutions.
• Establish and promote performance best practices across the engineering organization.
• Contribute to improving CI/CD pipelines and observability for faster, more reliable deployments.
• Participate in and run incident response and conduct root cause analyses with long-term remediation strategies.

About you

• 5+ years of software or platform engineering experience, ideally in high-performance systems.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, or Go).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling, load testing, and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure providers.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location.

• 133,000 - 176,000 CAD

This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signal we received from our interviews, coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors, to determine final compensation.

Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.