Senior Software Development Engineer

You would be joining a team that is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure stability, performance and scalability of our systems and engineering practices. Lately we have been busy working on our codebase modularisation and ensuring we have a durable, self-healing background processing system just to name a few

We face daily challenges with problems that do not have obvious or simple solutions. We are excited to meet team members that are self-sufficient and purpose driven and able to align to the business goals and long term strategic direction

You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing

This role requires a person that understands database performance and our current workloads

Has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server

Is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)

Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)

Predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it- You seek innovative solutions to problems

You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems

You are responsible, helpful, and kind

You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)

You find opportunities to teach others

You are a team player, you motivate your teammates

5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances

Working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters

We are also interested to hear about:

Working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework

We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and are happy to teach. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, apply and see what we are all about