<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>We’re Capital on Tap 👋<br></strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">💳 Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started! </span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">📍London, Old Street | 🏢 2 Days in Office</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Database Engineering at Capital on Tap 🌞</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Our platform runs on .NET and SQL Server on Azure, and it has grown a long way past what it was originally designed for. We are hiring our first dedicated database performance engineer to own performance and scale: to make the fast paths fast, to keep them fast as volume grows, and to give every engineer here the tooling and the judgement to write data access that holds up in production. You will join a small agile team comprising DBAs and site reliability engineers in a hands-on senior individual contributor role. You will not be a ticket queue. You will pick the work that moves latency, cost and reliability, and you will be trusted to say what needs re-architecting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Own query and index performance across our transactional SQL Server estate, using execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, real production telemetry or other data driven measures.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Investigate and implement horizontal scaling techniques such as multi-cluster architecture, contained availability groups, sharding, etc, to ensure Capital on Tap’s distributed software estate can continue to support a fast growing customer base and increasing service count.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Find and remove the bottlenecks on our latency critical paths, starting with card authorisation and ledger read/writes, and hold them to an agreed p99 budget.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Own high availability and disaster recovery. Availability groups, failover, backup and restore testing against real RTO and RPO targets, and the runbooks that go with them.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Build and enhance self serve tooling to enable development teams to identify query plan regressions along with self service diagnostic tools to allow teams to debug their own query performance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Automate what is currently manual, using PowerShell, Python, or Terraform, and treat database configuration as code.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Manage SQL Server cost as a first-class metric alongside latency and uptime.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Work alongside Product Engineering and our data analytics team, reviewing designs before they ship and levelling up how the whole engineering org thinks about data access.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Values & Culture</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Just Pilot:</strong> We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.</span></li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">&l