Senior Application Database Developer
Mastercard
Software Engineering
North York, Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Mar 27, 2025
Job Title:
Senior Application Database DeveloperOverview:
Who is Mastercard?Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
To drive our future growth, we are scaling our platform and building new products. Ethoca’s growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you then keep reading!
We believe in decoupled, message-driven, and distributed systems. We strive to keep codebases small and manageable. We’re interested in reactive design patterns that will make our systems more resilient and responsive, yet remain elastic to change. As we proceed through our technology roadmap, we are evaluating and implementing new community endorsed technologies for every tier of our platform. Our backend tiers are presently JVM-based. We are using or considering technologies like Kafka, Spring boot, ElasticSearch, Angular 10, Bootstrap, Chef, Ansible, Openstack, Docker and so on.
We want to hire a Senior Application Database Developer(PostgreSQL) who has a proven record of delivering high quality database solutions by using the appropriate industry leading products, patterns, and practices! You will also work with developers from various teams to code SQL queries and provide necessary recommendations on optimizing query plans.
Role
Work closely with product, and development teams to design and implement data model and infrastructure solution for a high-throughput distributed application.
Lead moderate project or initiative where specialized database knowledge is required.
Provide technical leadership and/or assistance to scrum teams on database development, maintenance, deployment and releases support.
Implement and maintain robust security measures across database systems, adhering to security and compliance standards
Perform runtime impact analyst (i.e. query optimization, performance analysis, index management, etc) to ensure database systems are running at high performance level
Contribute to the CI-CD pipeline and automate routine tasks using scripting tools
Contribute to Database Engineering process and procedures documentations.
Configuring, patching, upgrading and optimizing database software and related products
Provide technical guidance and support to customer service and product team, helping them on leverage data efficiently for decision making.
All About You
Strong experience working with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, IBM Db2, and other relational databases
Experience with DB Change Management Tools (Flyway and Liquibase)
Experience with Azure Cosmos DB, and/or Snowflake
Familiar with Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and automation
Strong proficiency on data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML)
Experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration of database disciplines
Strong performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, response and resolve database performance issues and communicate database performance resolution to team or stake holders
Experience with Dynatrace or Splunk
Experience with scripting languages like Unix shell, Ruby and Python
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