Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer

We are looking for a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to own Our platform's relational data architecture, data integrity, query performance and database evolution.

This is not a traditional DBA role.

We are not primarily looking for someone to administer database servers, patch installations or manage user accounts. We need a hands-on PostgreSQL engineer who can design a production schema from the ground up, enforce data integrity at the database layer, analyze query execution plans, solve performance and concurrency problems, and safely evolve a live database as the platform scales. You will work closely with our Lead Full Stack Platform Engineers and Senior Backend Engineers.

What You'll Do

Own Our platform's canonical PostgreSQL data model

Design schemas for investors, identity/KYC, organizations, properties, ownership, transactions, wallets, documents and audit/history records

Define relationships, primary and foreign keys, constraints and appropriate data types

Design tenant-aware data architecture and appropriate tenant-isolation patterns

Establish database-level integrity controls for sensitive financial and ownership records

Design transaction boundaries and consistency guarantees

Handle concurrency using appropriate PostgreSQL isolation and locking strategies

Diagnose and prevent race conditions, lock contention and deadlocks

Design indexing strategies using:

B-tree

composite indexes

partial indexes

GIN/GiST/BRIN where justified

Use EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE to diagnose and optimize production queries

Identify inefficient joins, N+1 access patterns and poor query plans

Review Prisma-generated SQL and identify when raw SQL or database-specific optimization is appropriate

Design safe, backward-compatible zero/low-downtime migrations

Develop migration rollback and recovery strategies

Design database audit/history patterns appropriate for a regulated platform

Establish connection-pooling strategies using PgBouncer or equivalent

Establish database performance baselines and monitoring

Use PostgreSQL statistics and tools such as pg_stat_statements to identify bottlenecks

Plan backup, point-in-time recovery and disaster-recovery strategies

Support database capacity planning as transaction and data volumes increase

Work directly with backend engineers on API-to-schema contracts and transaction behavior

Required Qualifications

4–8+ years of professional database, backend or data-platform engineering experience

Deep hands-on PostgreSQL production experience

Personally designed or significantly owned PostgreSQL schemas for production applications

Strong relational data-modeling skills

Advanced SQL proficiency

Strong understanding of PostgreSQL constraints and referential integrity

Hands-on experience with EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE

Demonstrated production query optimization experience

Strong indexing knowledge, including composite and partial indexes

Practical understanding of PostgreSQL MVCC

Experience with transaction isolation, concurrency, row-level locking and deadlock diagnosis

Experience planning and executing migrations on active production databases

Experience with connection pooling

Experience with backup and recovery strategies

Ability to collaborate with application engineers and translate application requirements into durable data models

PostgreSQL is non-negotiable

This is not a generic relational-database position. Candidates whose experience is primarily SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL without substantial production PostgreSQL ownership are unlikely to be a fit.

We specifically need someone who understands PostgreSQL deeply enough to explain not only what query or schema change should be made, but why PostgreSQL is behaving the way it is.

Preferred

AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

pg_stat_statements

PgBouncer

PostgreSQL partitioning

Point-in-time recovery

Large production database migrations

Multi-tenant SaaS data architecture

Financial transaction, payments, investment or ledger-like data models

Immutable/auditable data-history patterns

Fintech, regulated SaaS or digital-asset platforms

Prisma ORM and experience reviewing ORM-generated SQL

Basic Node.js/TypeScript familiarity sufficient to work effectively with backend engineers

Database observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog or equivalent

Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools while independently validating generated schemas, SQL and optimization recommendations

What You Are Not Expected to Own

You do not need to be the primary Node.js application developer. The Senior Backend Engineer owns services, APIs and business logic.

You also do not need Solidity or ERC-3643 experience. Blockchain development is a separate specialist function.

What Success Looks Like

A backend engineer should be able to bring you a new Our platform workflow and rely on you to determine: How should this data actually be modeled? What invariants belong in PostgreSQL? How do we prevent inconsistent ownership or transaction records? How will this query behave at 10 or 100 the volume? And how do we change the schema later without disrupting production?

That is the level of database ownership we're looking for.