Database Architect

Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for the mid-market. We make it easy for organizations to take control of spend and save money. We’re looking for a talented and team-driven Staff Database Engineer to join us on our journey.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Procurify is looking for a Database Architect to join our Architecture team. This team is helping to shape the future of engineering at Procurify as we look to scale up to our next level of growth.

In this role, you will help design and deliver the data layers of our most critical services. You will be a thought leader for database design at Procurify and help coach our highly engaged, creative engineers across the engineering organization.

What you’ll be working on

• Using your deep knowledge of MySQL and Postgres databases, you will help us plan to scale for the future through a combination of vertical and horizontal scaling initiatives. 

  • KPI: Database Cost Per Customer (Lower the better)

• Coach our Software Engineers in data modeling design patterns, normalization, optimization and trade-off analysis

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

• Provide tools that enable engineers to assess and improve low-performing database queries to support our internal performance SLOs

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

• Assess the consistency of our transactional data and provide tools to enable engineers to improve the overall health of their data

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements that enable our team to implement architecturally significant changes while maintaining alignment with stakeholders. 

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

• Work closely with the architecture team’s backend and frontend counterparts to influence our system’s high-level design principles and ensure our database architecture aligns to them.

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

• Join annual hackathons and immerse yourself in all things FinTech innovation.

• Work with a cloud native architecture 

  • RDS (MySQL/Postgres/Dynamo)

  • EKS

  • Terraform

•  KPI: Database Cost Per Customer (Lower the better)

• Advise Procurify’s leadership team on critical technical considerations related to the future of our data layer technologies

  • KPI: Database Cost Per Customer (Lower the better)

  • KPI: Product North Star Metric (% of domains that use 5 or more modules)

Who we’re looking for 

• Have 6-8+ years of software engineering experience with a significant portion of that experience focused on database engineering

• Expert-level experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL

• Strong experience working with databases in AWS, especially RDS Aurora

• Expert-level experience performance tuning databases

• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and setting clear expectations

• Autonomous and self-motivated while maintaining a “work out loud” attitude

• A history of focusing on security at scale (eg data isolation) in designing and implementing projects. 

• Strong Python programming experience in either a backend or scripting capacity (familiarity with Django is a bonus here)

• A proven track record of building/maintaining business-critical web applications at scale.

• A coach who has experience growing technical leadership on an engineering team 

• Familiarity with agile and software development practices such as scrum/kanban, CI/CD, test automation, and infrastructure as code.

WHY PROCURIFY?

Help us modernize spend management

Procurify is a remote-first company with a big heart and a strong ambition to modernize the way organizations manage business spend. We’re trusted by hundreds of companies around the world — across industries like biotechnology, education, health care, manufacturing, and software — to manage over $30B in spend. We recently closed $50M in Series C funding to help us strengthen our core offering, launch new payment capabilities, and provide customers with an AI-enhanced procure-to-pay experience. Read the press release here.

Be empowered to do your best work

We’ve created an environment where personal and professional growth is a real priority. Some of the great perks we offer include:

• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization with flexible working hours. Work anywhere from within Canada! 

• Four-day workweek: Burnout is real. To help you restore balance between work and life, all Procurify team members work four days a week.

• Unlimited responsible time off: Work hard, play harder. All team members can take advantage of our unlimited responsible time off policy. 

• Extended health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and well-being. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account.

• Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to giving back to our communities, including regular volunteer days, our Donate Your Day program, and education lunch and learns.

• Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program.

• DEI initiatives: We regularly run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter.

• Base Salary Range: $146,000 - $200,000 (This range is dependent on experience and not inclusive of any bonus, commission, benefits or equity that might exist in your total compensation package.)

Work with an amazing team

We’ve welcomed team members who were boat captains, funeral directors, swing dancers, competitive gamers, plumbers, and novelists. Everyone has a story and we’re here to embrace them! 

LEARN MORE

Procurify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any team members or applicants for employment because of race, color, disability, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or expression.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway. We know that feelings of imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we certainly don’t want those feelings to get in the way of meeting you! We really want to get to know you and why you’re great for the role. Please avoid including your picture and age on your resume.

Apply online today and let’s start a conversation.

To learn more about Procurify, check out these resources:

• Get to know our team through our Meet Us Monday videos

• Check out what our customers are saying about us

• Learn more about our procure-to-pay platform