Senior Data Engineer, Thunes
Simplifying international payments
Posted today
Simplifying international payments
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To connect every corner of the world and make the global economy accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Professional Experience: A proven track record in a Data Engineering capacity, with extensive experience managing and scaling modern, distributed data platforms
- Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep experience managing cloud-native data ecosystems, with a strong preference for candidates familiar with AWS or GCP environments
- Workflow & Infrastructure Tools: Proficiency in workflow orchestration and Infrastructure as Code (IaC); specific experience with Apache Airflow and Terraform is highly preferred, though experience with similar tools (e.g., Prefect, Dagster, Pulumi) will be considered
- Streaming Systems Depth: Demonstrated experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting distributed messaging and real-time data replication systems such as Apache Kafka or equivalent technologies (e.g., Amazon Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub)
- Data Governance & Quality: Solid understanding of Data Governance principles, including data lineage, metadata management, and automated quality checks
- Advanced Engineering Skills: Exceptional Python programming capabilities and advanced SQL proficiency, with a focus on writing clean, modular, and highly testable code
- Business Sense: Strong analytical aptitude with the ability to interface directly with business units, understand underlying data logic, and architect schemas that support complex organizational reporting and data product needs
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to drive the development and optimization of our data platform.
- This position is designed for a technical expert who excels at the intersection of data engineering, infrastructure automation, and business logic.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for building robust data lifecycles, ensuring the scalability of our cloud-native environment, and maintaining the integrity of our streaming and batch processing systems
- Data Platform Engineering: Design, implement, and scale end-to-end data pipelines using Python and SQL-based transformations within a cloud-native data lake environment
- Infrastructure Orchestration: Manage and scale containerized data workloads and automated workflow orchestration (using tools like Apache Airflow) and Infrastructure as Code (using Terraform) or similar functional equivalents
- Streaming & Real-time Integration: Maintain and evolve real-time data replication services and stream processing architectures (utilizing Apache Kafka or similar distributed messaging systems) to ensure low-latency data availability
- Data Quality & Governance: Establish and implement Data Governance frameworks and automated validation protocols to ensure the highest standards of data accuracy, compliance, and platform reliability
- Business Logic & Data Modeling: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to interpret complex business requirements and translate them into performant data models for reporting and business intelligence
- Systems Architecture: Provide technical insights into the continuous improvement of the data platform, ensuring the stack remains resilient and performant as data volumes and complexity increase
Our take
The way we pay has changed considerably in recent years, but sending international payments online can still be time-consuming and overly complex. Thunes solves this problem by making cross-border payments quicker and easier.
Thunes allows businesses to process payments anywhere in the world, improving their revenue. The company has managed to differentiate itself from traditional payment platforms thanks to their flexibility, transparency and low cost. They have also avoided competing with payment giants such as PayPal, who they now number as a customer. Other clients include Uber, Deliveroo and Grab.
In 2023 Thunes opened offices in Beijing after entering the Chinese market in 2021. This coincides with $60 million in Series C funding that is going towards the expansion of Thunes into new markets via cross-border payments which, alongside China, include Latin America and the Middle East. This indicates a strengthened global reach for Thunes.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2023
$12m
SERIES C
Total funding: $382m
Company benefits
- Bonuses
- Regular learning opportunities
- Volunteering opportunities
Company HQ
Downtown Core, Singapore
Leadership
Peter de Caluwe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as CEO of Ogone and as CEO of Payments at Naspers.
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