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# Senior Database Engineer at Backbase

- **Company:** Backbase
- **Location:** Krakow, Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workatbackbase/jobs/7992258

## Job description

About Backbase: Backbase is the leading AI-powered banking platform that is used by financial institutions worldwide to create seamless digital experiences. As a Senior Database Engineer in our Retail department, you'll be instrumental in optimizing the core data infrastructure that powers these experiences for millions of users, directly contributing to our mission of reinventing banking. Join our team at Backbase, one of the LinkedIn Top Companies of 2023 in the Netherlands, known for our great work environment and opportunities for career growth. We're committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and growth, where you'll work with some of the brightest and most talented people in the industry to help shape the future of digital banking.

The job in short: Are you a performance enthusiast with a deep understanding of databases, ready to be the ultimate database authority within Backbase? As a Senior Database Engineer (also known as a Senior Performance Engineer or DBA), you'll diagnose and resolve complex database performance issues, ensuring our digital banking platform operates at peak efficiency for our global customers.

Meet the job: Database performance engineers are a cornerstone of Backbase technology. You'll provide invaluable guidance to our development teams (tribes and squads) in their approach to databases and data design, ensuring our microservices deliver optimum performance. You'll analyze and interpret large volumes of performance data to characterize application behavior while proactively scanning for potential problems. Once an issue or bottleneck is identified, you'll build simulations to test your findings, and upon confirmation, you'll clearly explain it to Technical Architects and guide them towards a solution. We believe in having the guts to push limits and break barriers to make things happen, continuously learning and reinventing ourselves for maximum impact, never giving up.

Your duties will include:

- Explaining complex findings to a variety of technical audiences.
- Testing our Proof-of-Concept (PoC) products to ensure they achieve our ambitious goals.
- Ensuring overall software quality, scalability, and performance.
- Working closely with our cloud solutions team on their Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and launch.
- Acting as a consultant to our internal development teams and educating them on performance.

How about you? Looking for a journey instead of a job? Then let’s talk! We are THE pioneers in banking tech. As a Senior Database Engineer at Backbase, your role expands beyond the day-to-day operations of engineering. If you’re a curious go-getter with a passion for working with people and challenging your own skill set, then this is for you. We are creators, with a customer-centric mindset that loves what they do and brings fun to any challenge. Together we kick ass, have fun and feel proud when our vision is delivered. The next day - we wake up and raise the bar a little higher.

To really tackle this role, we believe you’ll need:

- Solid experience with large (100TB+), highly available, and high-transaction databases, with MySQL being a must-have (Oracle or MSSQL is a plus).
- Experience working with Cloud databases, either AWS or Azure.
- Deep knowledge about database fundamentals and architectures, alongside SQL code performance review and optimization.
- Familiarity with standard edition tools for performance measurement, analysis, and optimization.
- Experience with developing tools and methodology for isolating performance issues.
- The ability to coordinate, plan, and manage complex technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex subjects to a wide audience with different expertise levels.
- Experience with ML/LLM/AI concepts and their impact on database performance and data architecture, especially in a high-transaction environment.
- You must be located within commuting distance to our Kraków office, as we work in a hybrid mode, at least twice per week from the office.

## About Backbase

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Backbase builds the AI-native Banking OS that unifies digital channels, front office, and operations so banks can coordinate customers, employees, and AI agents from one platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no public ticker; no funding rounds disclosed – appears organically grown)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (described as “founder-led” but names not stated on the provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Banking technology / financial services software
- **Target customers**: B2B – large banking institutions (120+ banks globally, serving 75M+ daily users)
- **Mission/purpose**: “We built something that didn't exist before – an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks.”

## Products & Services
- **AI-native Banking OS**: A unified platform that sits above legacy cores, CRMs, and data platforms. It orchestrates customer engagement (digital banking, conversational banking, front-office workspaces) and banking operations (high-volume processes like disputes, payments, lending). Designed to be deployed incrementally without rip-and-replace. Includes native AI agents for governance, automation, and auditability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 2,000+ employees globally, 50% of team in R&D, 120+ banks as customers, 75M+ active daily users across the platform
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding globally with 16 offices across 5 continents; notable customer examples include I&M Bank (Africa) which grew onboarding from 2,000 to 21,000 new customers per month, and Techcombank (Vietnam) achieving 50% of savings and investments through digital. The company is actively hiring and describes itself as “in the middle of the biggest shift in banking’s history.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Frontline architecture** – breaks down fragmentation between digital channels, front office, and operations, enabling banks to move fast without sacrificing compliance or security
- **AI-native from the ground up** – not a bolt-on; full governance and audit trails for every AI decision
- **Progressive modernization** – works with existing cores, no big-bang migration required
- **18+ years of banking domain expertise** (since 2003) with a singular focus on banking since 2012

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI integration into banking workflows (Elastic Operations – scaling throughput without scaling headcount)
- Expanding global footprint (17 offices, including recent additions in Hyderabad, Riyadh, Mexico City, and Toronto)
- Continuing to shift banks from legacy fragmentation to a unified, composable operating system

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally.
- **Perks**: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one.
- **Engineering focus**: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots.

## Sources
1. [backbase.com/careers](https://www.backbase.com/careers)
2. [backbase.com/about](https://www.backbase.com/about)
3. [backbase.com](https://www.backbase.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/backbase](https://www.linkedin.com/company/backbase)

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