Database Engineer

About the role

This role is for a Database Engineer at pmtbox, a fintech company building a platform to manage payments-related risk, fraud, chargebacks, and other operational workflows. The position offers opportunities to design, scale, and tune the data foundation of a rapidly growing fintech platform, working alongside founders and an experienced engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize scalable relational database architecture across a growing fintech platform
• Improve database performance, indexing strategies, query optimization, and operational reliability
• Help architect and evolve complex data models tied to payments, fraud, risk, operational workflows, and reporting systems
• Build tooling around data validation, migrations, observability, integrity checks, and operational monitoring
• Improve reporting, analytics, and internal operational data workflows
• Partner closely with backend and frontend engineers to improve system performance and scalability
• Contribute to architectural decisions around data storage, caching, replication, and long-term scalability
• Use and refine AI-assisted development and operational workflows
• Improve database testing, CI/CD processes, and deployment reliability

Requirements

• Strong experience working with relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, or similar systems, as well as Redis
• Understanding of indexing, query optimization, schema design, migrations, and database scalability concepts
• Experience supporting production systems with meaningful operational complexity
• Ability to build tooling, automation, or operational improvements proactively
• Knowledge of Postgres functions, PostGIS, and triggers is a plus

Qualifications

• Have strong problem-solving skills and a passion for designing and optimizing systems
• Are curious about how AI changes engineering and operational workflows
• Can demonstrate measurable improvements to engineering workflows through AI assistance
• Have experience building or optimizing systems independently
• Care deeply about performance, reliability, and maintainability

Skills

• Relational database management systems (Postgres, MySQL)
• Database performance tuning and optimization
• Data modeling and schema design
• AI-assisted development and operational workflows
• CI/CD processes and automated testing
• Observability and operational tooling

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package including enterprise-level medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and generous time off
• Early-stage fintech with real momentum and VC backing by Tandem Ventures (Founders of fintech unicorns Divvy, Finicity, etc.)
• Work on meaningful ecommerce and payments infrastructure and build alongside founders and experienced operators in a five-days-a-week in-office culture
• Opportunity to help shape the long-term data architecture and operational scalability of the platform

Pay

Competitive compensation package including equity options.

Schedule

Full-time, in-office position.