# Senior Software Engineer (Database Reliability)

We’re Capital on Tap 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. 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. 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! This is a Hybrid role, the Database team work from our Moorgate (London) Offices 2 days per week. The Role Our platform runs on .NET and SQL Server on Azure, and it has scaled well beyond its original design parameters. We're hiring our first dedicated Database Software Engineer to own performance and scale: to make the fast paths faster, keep them ahead as volume grows, and give every engineer here the tooling and judgement to writ

- **Id**: 1421277
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/capital-on-tap-senior-database-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-28T19:09:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:43:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5465
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Pet friendly
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Business & SME Lending, Procurement & Spend Management

## Company

- **Id**: 12307
- **Name**: Capital on Tap
- **Domain**: capitalontap.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/capital-on-tap>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 58
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 66000
- **Max usd**: 133000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 61

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure SQL Database** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Entity Framework Core** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T22:29:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 45
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.601
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 58
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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