Senior Database Developer

• Create brand-new tables, indexes, structures, and plans
• Refactoring and optimizing existing architecture
• Create and extend API endpoints to support a variety of new features
• Maintain, optimize, and develop new features for the MYSQL back-end
• Improve the performance of complex database queries
• Create caching models for complex reporting needs
• Where possible, migrate core functions to microservices
• Recommend and implement architectural enhancements to allow applications to scale and add new functionality
• Maintain the entire AWS instance
• Handle a pipeline of features, enhancements, and bugs while adhering to agile development principles through bi-weekly sprints

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
• 5 years of experience with MYSQL, including scratch architecture, heavy refactoring, and deep optimization for very large tables (100MM records)
• Strong experience in Node.js
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience working with large amounts of frequently updated data and designing efficient schemas is nice to have
• Experience with Apache, NGINX, HAProxy, and/or OpenResty
• Experience with Linux systems and working knowledge of Git and GitHub
• Knowledge of common web vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of other languages is beneficial
• Excellent English communication skills
• Organized, self-starter, and detail-oriented