Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer

MeridianSquare; North Goa; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

MeridianSquare in Goa, India seeks a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to own the platform's relational data architecture, integrity, and performance. This hands-on role focuses on production schema design, data integrity, and safe evolution of a live database as the platform scales.

You will collaborate with backend and platform engineers to optimize queries, define tenancy patterns, and implement robust backup and recovery strategies for a regulated fintech-like environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing production PostgreSQL schemas.
• Strong SQL proficiency and deep understanding of constraints and referential integrity.
• Hands-on experience with EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
• Extensive knowledge of advanced indexing (composite, partial) and MVCC.

Responsibilities

• Own canonical PostgreSQL data model for the platform.
• Design tenant-aware data architecture and isolation patterns.
• Define relationships, keys, constraints, and data types.
• Establish integrity controls for sensitive financial and ownership data.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL

MVCC

Query optimization

Indexing

Data modeling

Concurrency control

Explain/Analyze

Schema design

OLTP

Tools

PgBouncer

pg_stat_statements

Job description

We are looking for a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to own Our platform's relational data architecture, data integrity, query performance and database evolution.

This is not a traditional DBA role.

We are not primarily looking for someone to administer database servers, patch installations or manage user accounts. We need a hands-on PostgreSQL engineer who can design a production schema from the ground up, enforce data integrity at the database layer, analyze query execution plans, solve performance and concurrency problems, and safely evolve a live database as the platform scales. You will work closely with our Lead Full Stack Platform Engineers and Senior Backend Engineers.

What You'll Do

• Own Our platform's canonical PostgreSQL data model
• Design schemas for investors, identity/KYC, organizations, properties, ownership, transactions, wallets, documents and audit/history records
• Define relationships, primary and foreign keys, constraints and appropriate data types
• Design tenant-aware data architecture and appropriate tenant-isolation patterns
• Establish database-level integrity controls for sensitive financial and ownership records
• Design transaction boundaries and consistency guarantees
• Handle concurrency using appropriate PostgreSQL isolation and locking strategies
• Diagnose and prevent race conditions, lock contention and deadlocks
• B-tree
• composite indexes
• partial indexes
• GIN/GiST/BRIN where justified
• Use EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE to diagnose and optimize production queries
• Identify inefficient joins, N+1 access patterns and poor query plans
• Review Prisma-generated SQL and identify when raw SQL or database-specific optimization is appropriate
• Develop migration rollback and recovery strategies
• Design database audit/history patterns appropriate for a regulated platform
• Establish connection-pooling strategies using PgBouncer or equivalent
• Establish database performance baselines and monitoring
• Use PostgreSQL statistics and tools such as pg_stat_statements to identify bottlenecks
• Plan backup, point-in-time recovery and disaster-recovery strategies
• Support database capacity planning as transaction and data volumes increase
• Work directly with backend engineers on API-to-schema contracts and transaction behavior

Required Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of professional database, backend or data-platform engineering experience
• Personally designed or significantly owned PostgreSQL schemas for production applications
• Advanced SQL proficiency
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL constraints and referential integrity
• Hands-on experience with EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE
• Strong indexing knowledge, including composite and partial indexes
• Practical understanding of PostgreSQL MVCC
• Experience with transaction isolation, concurrency, row-level locking and deadlock diagnosis
• Experience planning and executing migrations on active production databases
• Experience with connection pooling
• Experience with backup and recovery strategies
• Ability to collaborate with application engineers and translate application requirements into durable data models

PostgreSQL is non-negotiable

This is not a generic relational-database position. Candidates whose experience is primarily SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL without substantial production PostgreSQL ownership are unlikely to be a fit.

We specifically need someone who understands PostgreSQL deeply enough to explain not only what query or schema change should be made, but why PostgreSQL is behaving the way it is.

Preferred

• pg_stat_statements
• PgBouncer
• Point-in-time recovery
• Financial transaction, payments, investment or ledger-like data models
• Fintech, regulated SaaS or digital-asset platforms
• Prisma ORM and experience reviewing ORM-generated SQL
• Basic Node.js/TypeScript familiarity sufficient to work effectively with backend engineers
• Database observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog or equivalent
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools while independently validating generated schemas, SQL and optimization recommendations

What You Are Not Expected to Own

You do not need to be the primary Node.js application developer. The Senior Backend Engineer owns services, APIs and business logic.

You also do not need Solidity or ERC-3643 experience. Blockchain development is a separate specialist function.

What Success Looks Like

A backend engineer should be able to bring you a new Our platform workflow and rely on you to determine: How should this data actually be modeled? What invariants belong in PostgreSQL? How do we prevent inconsistent ownership or transaction records? How will this query behave at 10x or 100x the volume? And how do we change the schema later without disrupting production?

That is the level of database ownership we're looking for.