Marcus Thomas LLC

Backend Engineer

• Provide primary production support for database incidents, including after-hours deployments, maintenance windows, and emergency recovery.
• Lead performance tuning across query optimization, indexing strategies, and execution plan analysis.
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks before they become incidents.
• Partner with architects, developers, and IT to align database design with application architecture, performance goals, and platform roadmap.
• Set database standards and best practices for the team.
• Lead all client-facing database communications: incident updates, root cause summaries, mitigation steps, and go-live readiness discussions.
• Own database architecture, schema design, and data strategy for lottery platforms, client systems, and internal applications.
• Design and evolve stable, scalable, secure data models for high-volume transactional and reporting workloads.

Senior Database Developer