WHO WE ARE
Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others; collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.
At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest.
When you're at Apex, you drive this change. You're part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy. Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees.
Together, we’re shaping the future of financial innovation. Embrace change. Solve big. Win together. And be G.R.E.A.T. — grit, results, empathy, accountability, and teamwork — with Apex.
We’re proud to be recognized for the innovative work we do, the purpose-driven nature of our work, and the collaborative culture we’ve created. Here are just a few of the many awards we’ve recently received:
Best Places to Work
2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 - Presented by BuiltIn
WealthTech of the Year
2025 - Presented by US FinTech Awards
The World’s Top 250 Fintech Companies
2024 - Presented by CNBC
ABOUT THIS ROLE
About the Role
Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Junior Database Administrator to administer, optimize, and support high-volume, highly available database systems across GCP managed services (Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, Memorystore for Redis/Valkey, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigQuery) as well as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
Duties/Responsibilities
Implement all database changes via IaC (Terraform + GitHub PRs).
Manage large transactional replication with low-latency delivery, using BigQuery as a replication target; tune performance and cost.
Establish backup/restore, PITR, HA/failover testing, DR runbooks, and an overall database support plan.
Collaborate with engineering teams on schema reviews, query optimization, and BigQuery governance; handle security/audit tasks.
Embrace DevOps: automate DB operations, manage CI/CD for DB changes, and modern monitoring/alerting.
Support incident response and participate in on-call rotations (off-hours, Central Time) and scheduled maintenance (patching, VLDB index work, DR testing).
Required Qualifications
5+ years of prior hands-on DBA experience, preferably with Postgres and MongoDB.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience required.
Administering and optimizing PostgreSQL environments, including transactional replication expertise.
GCP Cloud SQL PostgreSQL and solid PostgreSQL database management knowledge.
Preferred: Memorystore for Redis, AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery (incl. BigQuery performance tuning & admin).
Preferred: other cloud DB platforms (Azure SQL, AWS RDS).
Terraform / IaC and GitHub for managing database infrastructure changes.
High-availability architectures and disaster recovery planning & execution.
High-volume / fintech / securities transactional environment a plus.
Work Environment
This job operates in a hybrid office environment three days per week.
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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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