Company Overview

The organisation operates in the financial technology industry, developing and maintaining digital platforms that support financial transactions, payment processing, banking services, and financial data management. Its technology environment depends on reliable database infrastructure capable of handling large volumes of financial information while maintaining data accuracy, availability, and performance.

Role Summary

The Fintech Database Performance Engineer will focus on improving the performance, reliability, and efficiency of database systems supporting financial technology applications. The role involves database optimisation, query analysis, performance monitoring, and supporting the integrity of financial data across interconnected applications.

Working with backend developers, infrastructure engineers, and software architects, the successful candidate will help maintain database environments capable of supporting transaction-intensive fintech services.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor database performance across financial applications and backend services.

• Analyse and optimise SQL queries to improve data retrieval and transaction processing efficiency.

• Support database configuration, indexing, and performance tuning activities.

• Investigate slow queries, database bottlenecks, and application-related performance issues.

• Assist with database maintenance, backup verification, and recovery procedures.

• Monitor database resource utilisation and identify potential capacity limitations.

• Support data integrity and consistency across financial transaction systems.

• Collaborate with backend developers to improve database interaction and application performance.

• Assist with database migration, version upgrades, and infrastructure improvements.

• Maintain technical documentation covering database configurations and optimisation procedures.

• Support the implementation of appropriate database access controls and security practices.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

• Practical experience working with relational database management systems.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and database query optimisation.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or comparable technologies.

• Understanding of database indexing, transactions, replication, and backup procedures.

• Knowledge of database performance monitoring and troubleshooting techniques.

• Familiarity with cloud-hosted database environments is an advantage.

• Understanding of data integrity and security principles.

• Strong technical problem-solving and analytical abilities.

• Ability to collaborate with distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

• Fully remote working arrangement within Estonia.

• Opportunity to work with financial transaction databases and modern fintech infrastructure.

• Exposure to scalable database engineering practices.

• Professional development in database performance and cloud technologies.

• Collaborative engineering environment.

• Opportunities to contribute to the reliability of digital financial services.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV detailing their database engineering, SQL development, performance optimisation, or backend infrastructure experience. Applicants are encouraged to highlight relevant database technologies, technical projects, and experience supporting high-volume applications.

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