Senior Data Platform Engineer, Knowledge Platform & AI Enablement

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and...

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You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If tha...

In this data engineering role, we are seeking engineers with a background in data engineering to join us in various aspects of data engineering, leveraging your past experiences in the field. As a senior-level engineer, you'll take the lead in system design. Additionally, we expect you to drive medium and large-scale projects that create an impact across the entire team. On mentorship: In the mid to later stages of your role, you'll provide dotted-line guidance to Data Platform Engineer II(s) to support them in driving project delivery.
This role is based in Singapore.
 
Engage in technical decision-making, custom development, integration, and performance optimization at the foundational level, extending to the development of service layer infrastructure components, application layer, and data processing, including third-party data integration. Your contributions will enable Airwallex to evolve into a truly data-driven organization.
Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance distributed data processing systems (batch/streaming) to drive Airwallex's business growth and enhance product experiences.
Advocate for high-quality software engineering practices to establish scalable data infrastructure and pipelines.
Contribute to defining shared data engineering tool standards to enhance the productivity and output quality of data engineers across the company.
Provide guidance to junior engineers.
 

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
 
5+ years of relevant experience as a data engineer.
Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE/CIS (or equivalent experience) with knowledge of Kotlin / Java / Scala / Python / SQL.
Ability to take ownership of designing, building, and operating distributed systems and establishing overarching data architecture.
Possess strong working knowledge of Real-time/Batch processing systems.
Have experience with working data at PB scale.
 
Knowledge of Kafka, Data Lake, Spark, Flink, DBT, Spring Boot, Hadoop, BigQuery, and Snowflake is preferred.
 
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