Database Engineer
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sFOX is a full-service prime dealer integrating liquidity from various exchanges and OTC desks into one user-friendly platform. The platform offers traders optimal execution services through a seamless account, counterparty, and workflow solution, enhancing capital efficiency. By utilizing a smart order router, sFOX routes traders to competitive global prices, reducing slippage and enhancing trade performance on a large scale.
Ensuring top-tier investor protection and reliability, sFOX's platform holds a SOC 2 certification, enabling round-the-clock market access with a 99.99% uptime rate. Established in 2014, the company is supported by key investors such as Social Capital, Digital Currency Group, Khosla Ventures, and other notable entities.
Dedicated to democratizing financial markets, sFOX seeks exceptional individuals to join its expanding team.
Role Overview:
sFOX is in search of an adept MySQL Engineer with a passion for managing data and blockchain-driven financial technology. The ideal candidate is collaborative, self-reliant, and flourishes in a fast-paced setting.
As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, constructing, and upkeeping database systems that underpin high-volume real-time trading applications. sFOX is seeking a proficient data management professional to contribute technical expertise in developing and maintaining crucial data management systems seamlessly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain RDBM Systems
- Propose novel solutions for intricate technical challenges
- Generate database designs that cater to present needs while accommodating future requirements
- Collaborate with the software engineering team to enhance the database systems' quality and code
- Act as a lead for solving complex problems
- Establish effective data management standards and protocols
- Ensure system designs adhere to policies and standards
- Suggest solutions for system enhancement through process optimization and new technologies
- Fulfill ad hoc query and report requests
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of RDBMS physical and logical OLTP design and stored procedures development experience with MySQL
- Proficiency in high-volume transactional systems
- Expertise in specific technology domains and offering technical guidance
- Strong skills in designing and developing efficient database code
- Ability to analyze schema, query data, and review SQL for application comprehension
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in managing software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with AWS, RDS, and Version Control systems such as Git
Preferred Skills:
- Previous experience with trading and market data
- Background in digital currency trading
- Understanding of the digital currency trading market
- Interest in Bitcoin, digital currency, and distributed ledger technology
sFOX affirms its commitment to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, basing hiring decisions on merit, not discrimination.