Are you ready to build the future of our company?

About Mercury® Financial

Mercury® Financial is an innovative and growing financial services company with locations in both Austin, TX and Wilmington, DE. Our mission is to help customers build and maintain their financial future by offering them credit cards they can afford and understand. After only a few years, we’ve had great success building a significant credit card program, but we are aiming higher, which  means we have lots of challenging problems for you to help us solve. Come onboard, work with some of the most talented individuals who thrive on collaboration and teamwork, and help us continue to build something special.

Location 

Mercury® Financial is headquartered in the progressive and entrepreneurial tech hub of Austin, Texas. Our physical location is situated in a beautiful park like setting called the Domain. The Domain's ideal location and exceptional amenities, amazing restaurant selection, convenient parking are all perfect for after work happy hours!

What it’s like to work here: 

We foster a collaborative and innovative culture where you will be empowered to do your best work. All of our employees bring everything they have to their job and are part of a larger team working towards a greater goal. We do right by our employees, our partners, and our customers.

What a day is like:

The DBA will be responsible for managing and maintaining MySQL, MySQL Aurora and Redshift databases across the enterprise including performance tuning/monitoring, data replication, database schema design and disaster recovery. Responsibilities include:

• Monitor and support production web applications and infrastructure comprised of Linux servers and Windows servers running on AWS. 
• Report any application or infrastructure issues identified in production systems including web application(s), database, file transmissions and supporting infrastructure.
• Monitor daily scheduled jobs and file transmissions. Execute any failed jobs. Maintain agreed SLAs.
• Create a daily report of the issues identified indicating appropriate criticality.
• Participate in daily/weekly triage meetings.

You’re perfect for this role if you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education and/ or experience
• Required a minimum of 2 years’ experience
• Experienced with setting master/slave and read replicas across multiple AWS regions
• Must have Arora experience
• Develop scripts and tools required for monitoring, auditing, performance and security
• Experienced with effective backup and recovery processes
• Familiarity with best practices schema design on MySQL and Redshift
• Experienced with database encryption processes
• Experienced with Python scripting
• Experienced with identifying bottlenecks, deadlocks, slow running queries and fixing them

Valued skills:

• Experience in the financial technical (fintech) industry
• AWS experience 
• Experience using Jenkins for orchestration/automation
• Experience with Ansible
• Scripting using Python, Go, or Bash

Why you’ll like working here:

This isn’t a place where you will fill a seat and keep your head down. This is a place where everybody is expected to help build something. This is a place where you can be involved and lead in your areas of expertise. So, how much do you believe in yourself? If you believe in your skills, in your drive and determination, we’ll give you the resources and room to show the world what you can do. Here are just a few of the benefits we offer:

• Employer insurance coverage for employee & dependents
• Life insurance
• 401K with generous employer match
• Wellness program
• Monthly Company Events  
• Culture Committee
• Hybrid Work Model

Mercury® Financial is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.