Lead / Senior Data Engineer

Capcon Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Software/Data Engineer. This role involves defining data engineering strategies, aligning with business goals, and utilizing a modern tech stack including AWS, Python, and SQL. Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience in data engineering and a proactive, innovative mindset within a startup-like culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience as a Software/Data Engineer.
• Experience with modernising legacy or monolithic data systems is a plus.
• Understanding of machine learning pipelines or model deployment is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Define data engineering strategy and data platform roadmap.
• Align data engineering work with business goals and analytics/AI initiatives.
• Propose and contribute to new product ideas and emerging technologies.

Skills

AWS

Python

SQL

Apache Airflow

Docker

Metabase

Git

Job description

Why are they awesome?

• 10+ years in the fintech industry
• Regulated and trusted by financial institutions globally
• Pioneers in mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions focusing on low-cost acceptance payment
• Secured US$30M Series B funding
• Rapid growth: scaled from 150+ to 300+ employees in just 2 years

Your Mission

Your role is to bridge software engineering, data engineering, analytics and AI to modernise and scale data engineering practices.

Team & Culture

• You will be part of the Data and AI team and you will be reporting to the Head of Engineering and working closely with the CTO
• Innovative, proactive, problem-solving environment - you are a product engineer, not just task executors.
• An established company that embraces a startup-like culture.

What You'll Do

• Define data engineering strategy and data platform roadmap (modernisation, scaling, governance, cost efficiency, etc.)
• Alignment of data engineering work with business goals and analytics/AI initiatives
• A product engineer that proposes and contributes to new product ideas and emerging technologies.

Tech Stack

AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Athena, EC2), Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, Docker, Metabase, Git

Nice to Have

• Experience modernising legacy or monolithic data systems
• Understanding of machine learning pipelines or model deployment

Level

• Senior Software/Data Engineer (4+ years)

Location

• KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur