UWorld is a worldwide leader in online test prep for college entrance, undergraduate, graduate, and professional licensing exams throughout the United States. Since 2003, over 2 million students have trusted us to help them prepare for high-stakes examinations.
We are seeking a Sr. Database Developer who is passionate about creating an excellent user experience and enjoys taking on new challenges. The primary responsibilities include reviewing and optimizing queries, ensuring high performance, availability, and scalability of the database, and managing overall applications and database health. The DB developer will develop, test, deploy, improve, and support our UWorld Databases, Applications, Data Analytics, and Data warehouse platform to help users retrieve data effectively.
Your Role
- Designing and developing Database solutions, schemas, and stored procedures.
- Review, analyze, and fine-tune SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexes to ensure efficient performance across the system.
- Work closely with development teams to review SQL code and ensure adherence to best practices for optimal query performance.
- Identify and resolve database-related issues promptly, including deadlocks, performance bottlenecks, and connection issues.
- Understand Data Services and Analytics needs across the organization and work on the Data warehouse and Reporting infrastructure to empower them with accurate information for decision-making.
- Develop, modify, and test algorithms that can be used in scripts to store, locate, cleanse, verify, validate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information.
- Develop analytics to understand product sales, marketing impact, and application usage for current and future UWorld products.
- Work with the Operations team to Monitor database performance, diagnose issues, and proactively recommend and implement solutions to optimize database efficiency.
- Cleanse, prepare, and migrate data to various systems.
- Generate ad-hoc reports for on-demand needs.
- Collaborate with technical architects, product leads, QA team, and customer care team to drive new enhancements or fix bugs on time.
- Work in an agile environment such as Scrum.
Requirements
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as a Database Developer in designing and performance tuning of procedures and queries, data management, and developing reports and dashboards.
- 3+ years of experience with developing database schemas and stored procedures in SQL, MS SQL Server/MariaDB/MySQL, and DBA tools. Experience with OLAP/Datawarehouse is a plus.
- Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Managed Instances.
- Familiarity with database performance monitoring tools (e.g., SQL Profiler, Extended Events, DMVs).
- 2+ years of experience with programming and scripting languages (Java/Python/C#, Unix/Linux Shell scripting), REST API, JSON, Build and Deployment pipelines (Git, Ansible), and Cloud environments (Azure, AWS)
- Deep understanding of Data management (permissions, recovery, security, and monitoring). Experience in optimizing and maintaining queries and stored procedures
- Hands-on experience with SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, and cursors.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Soft Skills
- Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English
- Excellent attention to detail and organization skills and ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely
- Ability to work effectively within a changing environment that is going through high growth
- Exceptional follow-through, personal drive, and ability to understand direction and feedback
- Positive attitude with a willingness to put aside ego for the sake of what is best for the team
