Senior DBA

Your Role:
Due to the scaling of our infrastructure and products, we are looking for an experienced DBA who can design, maintain, and evolve resilient, secure, and scalable data storage systems. This role requires close collaboration with development, DevOps, and information security teams.
What You Will Be Doing:

• Maintain and develop fault-tolerant solutions based on PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Optimize database performance, including query tuning and indexing
• Set up backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies
• Contribute to data architecture design
• Configure monitoring and logging systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Ensure compliance with security standards (PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR)
• Automate database operations using Python/Bash scripts and IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Participate in incident investigations
• Collaborate with teams on data schema, migrations, and access controls

Who You Are:

• Highly structured and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills
• Proactive, ownership-driven, and comfortable working in cross-functional teams
• Passionate about building secure and scalable systems in fast-paced environments
• Curious and eager to continuously learn new database and cloud technologies

Your Experience:

• 5+ years of experience administering relational and NoSQL databases
• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (replication, performance tuning, partitioning)
• Experience with MongoDB (data modeling, aggregation pipelines, backups)
• Hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, Aurora, monitoring, IAM)
• Excellent SQL skills and proficiency in Python or Bash
• Proven track record in building HA and DR solutions for critical systems
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with Redis or Cassandra is a plus
• Participation in PCI DSS, SOX, or GDPR compliance projects is an advantage
• Background in fintech or high-load OLTP systems is desirable
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes and containerized environments is a plus

What we are offering

• Competitive salary negotiable depending on the candidate's level
• Share options
• We are still a start-up and more benefits are on the way

About Fintech Farm
We are a UK fintech creating successful neobanks in emerging markets in partnerships with local traditional banks. The mission is to make banking services accessible, simple and fun to use worldwide and the goal is to launch neobanks in 50+ markets, serving 100m+ customers.
Since our foundation in 2020, we've so far launched neobanks in Azerbaijan (2021), Vietnam (2023), Kyrgyzstan and India (2025), with 2m+ customers collectively and have more markets on the near horizon
Why Fintech Farm is a great place to be
Customers. We always go above and beyond to provide an amazing customer experience. And who said that banking has to be boring? We make our apps not just easy but fun to use.
People. We have 250 employees now at Fintech Farm and we are all business partners in our company. Each of us thinks big, acts as if we own the place and never takes "no" for an answer. We work with strong individuals whom we empower and trust rather than micromanage. Common sense rather than formal policies prevails in all that we do. We always stay curious and open-minded. We embrace the 'we over me' culture.

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