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About us
Endowus is Asia’s leading fee-only wealth platform. Headquartered in Singapore, we are the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS), helping everyone grow all their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low & fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.
Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones.
Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.
The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience from various banks and tech companies. We treasure our diversity in background and experience, and we look for people who share our beliefs in our mission.
About the Team
The Client Interactions & Insights Platform team builds and operates the scalable data platform that powers data analytics and business intelligence for better decision making at Endowus. Working with colleagues in Data Analytics, Growth, Marketing, and Operations teams, the data engineering team creates data solutions that provide them with performant, near real time access to internal & third party data and insights.
We are a full stack team that builds our systems using cloud native patterns and operates them with high standards of engineering & operational excellence.
About this role, responsibilities & ownership
- Lead technical design, delivery, reliability & security of our core data platform.
- Work closely with the Product team, other Engineering teams, and stakeholders in Data Analytics, Growth, Marketing, Operations, Compliance & IT Risk to achieve our business goals.
- Strive for high levels of technical quality, reliability, and delivery efficiency.
- Mentor and grow a small talented team of junior data engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelors' or above in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 6 years experience in designing and implementing highly scalable, distributed data collection, aggregation, and analysis systems built for handling large volumes of data in the cloud.
- At least 2 years experience as a tech lead facing business users directly and leading technical initiatives
- Significant hands-on experience building and optimising data pipelines for data collection, transformation, aggregation in Apache Flink or Apache Spark, using dependency and workflow management tools such as Airflow, operating in a public cloud environment like AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Advanced SQL knowledge and strong experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience integrating BI tools such as Tableau, Mode, Looker, etc.
- Experience integrating data sources using REST and streaming protocols, especially using Kafka.
- Strong grasp of at least one of the JVM languages such as Java, Scala.
- Experience with building systems & processes to handle data quality, data privacy, and data sovereignty requirements.
- Experience with agile processes, testing, CI/CD, and production error/metrics monitoring.
- Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership.
- Comfortable with numbers and motivated by steep learning curves.
- Has a strong product sense and is empathetic to customers' experiences of using the product.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Domain experience in a B2C context is a strong plus.
- Knowledge of finance, wealth, and trading domain.
- Some exposure to CQRS / Event Sourcing patterns.
- Experience with AWS or GCP, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform.
Our Investors, recognition, licensing
Founded in 2017, Endowus has raised a total of US$50 million in funding from investors such as UBS, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, Z Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and global leading venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Ventures Asia.
Endowus’ leadership and growth have been recognised by the industry and it has attained numerous awards including, Singapore’s Best Digital Wealth Management (Asia Asset Management’s Best of the Best Awards 2024), Singapore’s Best Digital Upgrade for enhancements made on the Endowus app (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2024), Singapore’s Best Digital Wealth Management Experience (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2023), and Best WealthTech Solution 2023 (Asian Private Banker 9th Technology Awards). Endowus is also among the firms named in the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2023, LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2023 and Forbes’ “100 to Watch” list for 2022.
The Endowus Group comprises Endowus' licensed companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Hong Kong-based Carret Private. Endowus Group serves tens of thousands of clients with assets over US$4 billion and is one of the largest independent wealth managers in Asia. From a combination of trailer fees rebates as cashback, savings from the access to institutional share class funds, and savings from access to funds where Endowus is an exclusive distributor, Endowus has created more than US$15 million in savings for its clients.