Database Engineer

We’re making payments the most powerful tool in commerce — come build with us.

Most database engineering job descriptions read like a checklist of maintenance tasks, migrations, and optimization tickets. This one is different. At pmtbox (“Payment Box”), we’re building a fintech platform that manages payments-related risk, fraud, chargebacks, card declines, and related operational workflows for retail clients. We’re a VC-backed fintech with a small team, over 1,000 active clients, and big ambitions, and we’re looking for engineers who want to build systems, not just maintain them.

We’re looking for a Database Engineer who wants to help designscale, and tune the data foundation behind a rapidly growing fintech platform.

If you’ve spent your career in environments where database work is isolated to ticket queues and reactive support work … this role might feel very different. We’re looking for engineers who:

• Think deeply about data architecture, scalability, and operational reliability
• Enjoy solving complex systems and data workflow problems
• Build infrastructure and tooling proactively rather than reactively
• Care about performance, integrity, observability, and long-term maintainability
• Use AI as a force multiplier in their engineering workflow
• Think beyond queries and into the operational systems powered by data

You’ll be building real systems alongside founders, including a technical co‑founder with deep industry experience and expertise, and a small, high‑performing engineering team. Expect to:

• Design and optimize scalable relational database architecture across a growing fintech platform
• Improve database performance, indexing strategies, query optimization, and operational reliability