Data Engineering Intern

Our Journey The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 60 million shoppers across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$800 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout. About the role At ShopBack, our engineering teams build scalable platforms and utilize leading technologies to build a world-class product. You will join a diverse and talented team of aspiring engineers with great ambition to impact the eCommerce landscape. We are seeking team members who strive to solve hard problems, take pride in delivering world-class products, and are strong team players. You will get an opportunity to work on building scalable data systems that help drive the organization’s data-driven decision-making and play a direct impact on growth. Our Data Platform team builds and maintains the foundation that powers ShopBack’s analytics and decision-making. We design and operate data pipelines across AWS S3, Apache Iceberg, and Trino, orchestrated through Airflow and modeled via dbt-on-Spark. You’ll work alongside experienced data engineers who value clean data, efficient systems, and thoughtful design, not just working code. Your Adventure Ahead

Build and maintain data models and pipelines using Spark and Apache Airflow

Learn to design and optimize HUDI and Iceberg tables for performance and reliability

Write and validate SQL transformations consumed in Trino and Metabase

Collaborate with senior engineers to improve data quality and observability

Use AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code) to assist coding and documentation, and learn how to verify their output

Document learnings and share improvements through Confluence and Slack

How modern data lakehouses (Spark + Iceberg + Trino) work in production

Building reliable, testable dbt models on top of large datasets

End-to-end flow: ingestion → transformation → analytics

Practical debugging, observability, and version control in a real system

How to collaborate effectively in a hybrid engineering team

Essentials to Succeed

Strong interest in data engineering or data systems

Familiarity with Python and SQL (school projects or self-taught is fine)

Curiosity about data pipelines, storage formats, and data quality

Comfort experimenting with AI coding assistants responsibly

Clear communication, asks questions early, shares progress regularly

Bonus: exposure to AWS, dbt, Spark, or Trino

ShopBackers' DNA

• Grit - We tackle all challenges head-on, working together to solve problems and achieve success.
• Hunger - We value hard work, and having relentless drive.
• Speed - We move fast and have a bias for action, all to deliver maximum impact.
• Impact - We focus on results, always aiming for the best possible outcomes and timelines.
• Growth - We embrace a growth mindset, constantly striving to learn, improve, and excel in our roles.

 

Exclusively for ShopBackers

• Career progression paths and opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
• Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale.
• Competitive compensation based on your performance.
• Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued, for everyone to grow and improve every day.