Your Mission
At Ratepay, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the world of digital payments. Established in 2009, we have grown to become Europe's leading white-label Buy Now Pay Later payment provider, processing over 2.5 million transactions per month. Our diverse team of 200+ professionals collaborates to create customized, state-of-the-art payment solutions for major online retailers and marketplaces.
Ratepay is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer with a strong background in cloud-based database systems, including PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, and automation with Terraform and Python. In this role, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data infrastructure as platform usage grows, while standardizing backups, supporting schema changes, optimizing performance, maintaining Terraform modules, maintain and migrating Airflow, as well as expanding expertise in Microsoft SQL Server.
Your Key Responsibilities:
* Operate, maintain, and enhance PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, and ElastiCache in AWS.
* Support automation of database provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Python.
* Create, manage and maintain the terrraform modules for data infrastructure related component.
* Manage and maintain Apache Airflow.
* Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve database performance.
* Own backup and recovery strategies and manage production upgrades.
* Collaborate with product teams on schema design, queries, and data migrations.
* Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
* Document operational procedures and train internal stakeholders.
* Learn and support Microsoft SQL Server to widen internal capability.
That's What You Bring Along
Must-have skills:
* PostgreSQL (Deep technical ownership and performance tuning of critical database workloads)
* DocumentDB, ElastiCache (Operate, maintain, and enhance in AWS)
* AWS (Operate cloud-native databases with security, HA, and observability)
* Terraform (Automate infrastructure deployment and ensure reproducibility)
* Python (Scripting for automation, monitoring, and dev tooling)
* Monitoring (e.g. CloudWatch,Datadog for proactive performance tuning and incident alerting)
* On-call experience (Operate in a 24/7 support model with reliability focus)
Nice-to-have skills:
* Microsoft SQL Server (Grow support capabilities for Windows-based workloads)
* CI/CD for DB changes (Improve deployment velocity and safety)
* Experience working with Apache Airflow
Due to our hybrid work model, we are looking for candidates based in or near Berlin. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to support visa or relocation processes.
That's How Working With Us Will Be
We're more than just a workplace – we're a vibrant community of innovators, collaborators, and visionaries who love what we do and reward those who work with us. Here, your career isn't just a job. It's an opportunity to thrive, learn, and make a difference. Take a look at these great personalised benefits of working at Ratepay. On a monthly basis, you can choose between mobility, fitness, food, training and much more.
* Flexible working hours.
* Work remotely (EU for up to 4 weeks a year).
* 28 vacation days per annum.
* Financial security including Pension plan
* Medical extras (Eye examination etc.)
* Monthly lunches.
* Learning and development (Access to various self-development platforms such as language learning and skills enhancement.
* Health & wellbeing.
* Gym memberships and fitness.
* Ratepaw community: Our office has a floor which is dog-friendly. So, bring your pawsome pet to work when needed.
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion.
About us
We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custom-made state-of-the-art payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one white-label Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and we’re constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous, committed and decisive, warm-hearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AI-based risk management. With us, you can integrate direct debit, instalments and prepayment. In other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europe’s fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings, Ebay and About You and hundreds more.