Senior Data Engineer
About the role
Straits Ledger is hiring a data engineer in Singapore. You will build the pipelines that turn raw events into tables the rest of the business is willing to bet on. A pipeline that is fast and quietly wrong is worse than one that is slow, so correctness, lineage and replay are the axes we optimise.
Singapore job advertisements quote a MONTHLY figure and this one follows that convention. The annual wage supplement and any performance bonus sit on top of the range below rather than inside it.
What the work actually looks like
The work is a mix of new ingestion, modelling in the warehouse, and the permanent background task of handling late, duplicated and malformed records without silently dropping them. You will own the freshness and quality checks for your domain and be the person analysts ask when a number looks wrong. The team works a hybrid week out of Singapore, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.
What we look for
This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be expected to push back on requirements that do not make sense and to set the technical direction for your part of the product. We want strong SQL, comfort with Python, and experience with an orchestrator in production. Modelling judgement matters more here than knowing a specific vendor: you should be able to explain why a table is shaped the way it is.
Working at Straits Ledger
We are an Employment Pass sponsor and will support a move for the right candidate; the team keeps Singapore hours with real flexibility around them. The range shown is a MONTHLY figure, which is how this market advertises salaries — it is not an annual number.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines end to end
- Model warehouse tables that analysts can use without asking what a column means
- Handle late, duplicate and malformed records explicitly rather than by accident
- Own freshness, volume and quality checks with alerting that is worth reading
- Document lineage so a number can be traced back to its source
Requirements
- Strong SQL, including window functions and query tuning
- Python for data work and for the glue around it
- Production experience with Airflow, Dagster or a comparable orchestrator
- A cloud warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Redshift
- Comfortable reasoning about idempotent, replayable pipelines
Skills
Benefits
- Monthly salary plus a performance bonus
- Employment Pass sponsorship and relocation support
- Comprehensive medical and dental cover
- Hybrid working with flexible core hours
Straits Ledger
Straits Ledger gives South-East Asian companies one treasury view across half a dozen banks and four currencies: balances, forecasting, FX exposure and the approval trail auditors ask for. Our customers are finance teams of eight people running a business in six countries.
The interesting engineering is in reconciliation. Bank feeds arrive late, out of order and occasionally contradict each other, and a treasury dashboard that is confidently wrong is worse than no dashboard at all.
We work from a floor in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore. Salaries are advertised monthly as is standard here, and we sponsor Employment Passes for the right candidate.