aVenture is a San Francisco, California (USA) based financial technology startup, with a small global team (North and South America, Europe, Asia) looking to forever change investing by making venture capital investment funds available to everyone.

aVenture is seeking a knowledgeable database manager/developer with experience developing databases in Google Firebase (Firestore) and MySQL, including designing their architecture, security, and scalability. We are looking for a contractor to join us full-time (40 hours a week), and this position is available at a fixed rate of compensation per month or hourly rate. All payments are made in U.S. Dollars (USD).

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the world (work from home). This position requires a regular work schedule, and must have at least 4 hours of US Pacific Time availability per weekday in your schedule.

No agencies, please.

Desired skills

• Ability to take a data model from another team and deploy a new database from scratch into MySQL, Google Firebase/Firestore, or other popular databases
• Knowledge of when a NoSQL, MySQL, Postgres, or other database is a better fit for a particular need
• Administration and management of cloud databases (AWS, GCP) spanning design, development, QA, staging, and production
• Experience and ability to write complex procedures and queries
• Advanced knowledge of database security, backup, recovery, replication, and performance monitoring standards
• Experience implementing and managing financial APIs
• Advanced knowledge in data management and experience managing sensitive financial data
• Have used or familiar with monitoring or query analyzers to diagnose issues and optimize database performance
• Optional, but helpful other skills include: proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Javascript and Python), experience with Webflow, Bubble.io, Javascript libraries, and maintaining a Hubspot database and associated marketing

Job duties

• Design and maintain organized, stable, and effective databases
• Solve database usage issues and malfunctions
• Work closely with other technical and non-technical team-members to improve applications and establish best practices in database design
• Gather user requirements and identify new features
• Develop, integrate, and maintain our own APIs and those with other providers
• Participate fully in code reviews and work with internal designers, developers and QA to ensure quality database and code
• Ensure security, privacy and data integrity across all databases, including backup, compliance with applicable laws, and data immutability settings
• Handle complex database procedures, planning, scaling and optimization to meet the needs of the business

Qualifications required

• Proven experience and/or training in the development and administration of MySQL and Firebase (Firestore) databases
• Experience working with sensitive transaction data, ideally in a financial technology setting

What to expect

• You’ll be working with an experienced, knowledgeable, and friendly team of people passionate about making venture capital accessible for everyone
• Each employee on our team is expected to have a stable work schedule they establish for when they begin and end work each day, and must have at least 4 hours of US Pacific Time business hours available Monday through Friday daily
• A successful developer will manage their time carefully, maintaining time entries of their work and managing a successful development task board (such as Jira), and participate in daily brief check-in meetings, along with weekly planning meetings