Web Performance Optimization Consultant

Summary

Join Yottaa as a Web Performance Optimization Consultant to lead its SpeedSense Performance Consulting offering, helping eCommerce brands enhance website performance and user experiences. You will conduct detailed website audits to identify performance problems, determine root causes, and provide remediation recommendations. Collaborate with internal teams and clients to improve website speed and performance benchmarks. Communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and work directly with client teams to implement recommendations. This role requires 5+ years of web development experience, a passion for web performance, and expertise in Core Web Vitals and performance debugging tools. Projects range from single audits to ongoing advisory support.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, rank 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with one or more web frameworks
• Experience working with Ecommerce websites, and the specific performance challenges that arise in this industry