Senior Software Engineer - Database Connectors

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise-grade software to join the PostgreSQL database connector team. You will be focusing on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of our largest and most sophisticated customers. The work we do is both highly visible and critically important to the long term growth and success of Fivetran.

This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad, Serbia office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You’ll Use

Java, PostgreSQL, GCP, SQL, BigQuery, Bazel, BuildKite, Temporal, Grafana

What You’ll Do

Independently design, develop, and support of our intuitive best-in-class enterprise capabilities enabling Fivetran’s largest customers.

Manage and lead projects, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.

Maintain and improve existing enterprise features; call for improvements in Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure.

Demonstrably maintain high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability by conducting thorough testing and reviews.

Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability

Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.

Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends

Conduct design and code reviews

Participate periodically in on-call rotation.

Skills We’re Looking For

5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.

Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.

Strong knowledge in database and query performance tuning.

Writes well-structured and performant code.

Able to define project requirements and be proficient at designing the software and infrastructure to satisfy them.

Experience understanding customer requirements and/or problems and breaking them down into engineering tasks.

Understands and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes.

Enjoy mentoring and growing junior developers.

Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.

Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite/Circle CI

Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, BuildKite, or similar technologies.

Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation

Bonus Skills

Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.

Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.

Expertise in Postgres database internal

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Perks and Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance *

Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training opportunities

Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities

Monthly cell phone stipend

Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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