--- title: 'Senior Database Administrator at Midas' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-database-administrator-midas-turkey-yxrsdg82n5mz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Senior Database Administrator at Midas - **Company:** Midas - **Location:** Turkey - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/getmidas/cb3861e5-9f2b-4203-badf-019b089e37db ## Job description At Midas, we are working on real-life engineering challenges to transform the world of finance. We’ve transformed investing in Turkey by delivering a seamless experience for everyday investors. Today, 4 million users invest with Midas. Backed by an $80M Series B, the largest fintech investment ever in Turkey, we are scaling faster than ever. What You'll Do: Design, architect, and operate scalable, robust systems across critical data infrastructure to support high-throughput operations. Own the day-to-day administration, tuning, and continuous improvement of our datastores — including backups, recovery, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Work with product and cross-functional teams to deliver maximum customer value and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Own end-to-end delivery, including performance monitoring, observability, and proactive incident management in production environments. Provide technical guidance and foster best practices within the Datastore, Messaging, and Reliability domain through knowledge sharing and peer reviews. Lead the operational excellence, scaling, and continuous improvement of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and strong reliability practices. What You'll Bring: Experience solving large-scale problems for millions of users through scalable and reliable systems. Extensive hands-on experience in database administration, with deep expertise in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch. Strong background in production reliability, including high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and performance tuning at scale. Experience working within large and complex technical ecosystems, with strong database management and data streaming expertise. Ability to navigate technical and organizational dependencies, balancing trade-offs with partner teams and aligning technical strategy with business priorities. Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and incident management practices in production environments. Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, particularly using StatefulSets for stateful workloads. Nice to have: Working knowledge of SQL Server, TimescaleDB, and Altibase. ## About Midas ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Midas is a Turkish fintech company operating a regulated brokerage platform that enables retail investors to trade Turkish and US equities, mutual funds, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: İstanbul, Turkey - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Egem Eraslan (CEO), Umut Bozkurt ## Core Business - **Industry**: Financial Services / Fintech – retail brokerage and investment platform - **Target Customers**: B2C – individual retail investors in Turkey (and expanding internationally) - **Mission**: To make investing in Turkish and American stocks easy and accessible, positioning itself as Turkey’s largest retail investment platform. ## Products & Services - **[Midas Mobile App]**: A mobile-first trading platform offering zero-commission trading on Borsa İstanbul (BIST) and US stock exchanges. Includes features for equities, mutual funds, and cryptocurrency trading. (SaaS / mobile app) - **[Midas Web Platform]**: Web-based access for trading and portfolio management, complementing the mobile app. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest round was Series B in September 2025) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$139M** (across 4 rounds, including $80M Series B led by QED Investors in Sep 2025) - **Annual Revenue**: **$3.75M** (estimated from LinkedIn data) - **Notable Investors**: QED Investors (lead Series B), Portage Ventures (lead Series A), Spark Capital, Earlybird Digital East Fund - **Growth Signals**: - Monthly website traffic ~788k visits, +25.1% month-over-month and +10.7% year-over-year. - Headcount grew **23.6% YoY** to 350 employees. - Active job postings increased **80% year-over-year** (9 open roles). - Recently launched a card product and expanded into new asset classes. ## Competitive Advantages - **Regulated Brokerage**: Holds a SPK (Capital Markets Board of Turkey) license, offering a trusted, compliant platform in a market with high demand for accessible investing. - **Zero-Commission Model**: Disrupts traditional Turkish brokerage fees, attracting cost-sensitive retail investors. - **Local + Global Access**: Allows Turkish investors to trade both BIST and US stocks seamlessly from a single app. - **Strong Tech Stack**: Modern infrastructure (Kubernetes, microservices, PostgreSQL, Python, etc.) enabling rapid feature development and scalability. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Growing beyond equities into mutual funds, cryptocurrencies, and a card product to become a comprehensive financial super-app. - **International Growth**: Already has employees across 16 countries; likely targeting expat Turkish communities and broader European markets. - **Engineering & Data**: Hiring aggressively for data, infrastructure, and platform roles (e.g., Analytics Manager, Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Manager for Data Store & Reliability) to support scaling. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a fast-growing fintech with a flat hierarchy and a focus on ownership. However, Glassdoor-style ratings are low (2.0/5.0 based on 3 reviews) – take with caution. The large number of ex-employees from top Turkish tech companies (Trendyol, Getir, Papara) suggests a competitive talent environment. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but offices in Istanbul (Uskudar and Üsküdar). Likely hybrid given the tech-heavy workforce. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on modern tools (Kubernetes, GitOps, observability stack). Engineering makes up ~43% of the workforce (149 out of 350). Active hiring for senior and lead engineering roles. - **Perks**: Not detailed, but as a well-funded Series B company, likely offers competitive compensation (4.0/5.0 compensation rating) and equity. ## Sources 1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/getmidas) – Company details, financials, workforce, growth 2. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/midas) – Org chart, founders, leadership 3. [rocketlist.ai](https://rocketlist.ai/companies/midas) – Funding, employee count (conflicting 941), tech stack 4. [raising.fi](https://raising.fi/company/getmidas) – Funding rounds summary 5. 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