Careers - Handshakes
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Our team comprises people of all shapes, colours, nationalities and backgrounds – adding energy and vibrancy to the office, and making this a great place to work and learn.

Everyone matters

As a still-growing, innovative business, every person’s contribution matters in propelling us towards success.

Your future is part of our plans

Your growth is important to the success of our company. That’s why our leaders chart clear progression paths for every person in the team.

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What makes a Handshaker?

1

Honourable

The spirit of integrity grounds our work ethic and our business mission, which is to connect clients with reliable and sound insights.

2

High-Performing

Handshakers are self-driven innovators who take pride in their work and love a challenge – whether it’s improving processes or trying new tools.

3

Happy

At Handshakes, we think of ourselves as one big happy family – sharing knowledge, learning from one another and supporting each other to the best of our abilities.


Available openings

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The role

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

We are hiring for a Senior QA Automation Engineer who will be part of our QA team working to ensure the quality of our products.  This role is a full-time permanent position in our Kuala Lumpur office.  As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will be involved in building solutions to test applications across different platforms by leveraging automation and innovation.  You will be responsible for the design, execution and analysis of technical test engagements in an Agile / Scrum setting.

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, your responsibilities include but would not be limited to:

  • Develop unit, integration, system, and end-to-end tests in an automated fashion
  • Define test strategies to support the development of major new features or of new applications
  • Drive and deliver test programs under your responsibility and work with various stakeholders on defect and issue resolution
  • Continual development and enhancement of test cases, documents and test procedures and the supporting test tools and systems
  • Work alongside product owners, BAs and PMs to define testable acceptance criteria

As an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer, you would have:

  • Automation test scripting skills using either Java, JavaScript, Python or other applicable scripting languages
  • Hands on exposure to tools such as Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Cucumber, Git or JIRA
  • Experience in building test frameworks from scratch, supporting testing at all levels of the testing pyramid
  • Demonstrable quality assurance / software testing experience with complete test lifecycle exposure in an agile setting
  • Familiarity with code review standard methodologies, test driven development and behavior driven development concepts

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies.  If interested, apply here or send your profile or inquiries directly to [email protected].

Business Development Associate

Business development
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The role

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

We apply machine learning technology to analyse and provide corporate data from public and private domains. Our award-winning Handshakes App fuses these data to provide strategic business intelligence for our clients.

We are looking for a self-driven and enterprising Business Development Associate to join our Business Development team as part of our expansion. The Business Development Associate will be helping drive growth for the business by identifying and cultivating potential leads within targeted industries, segments and locations. This role is based in our Kuala Lumpur office.

As a Business Development Associate, you will be expected to:

  • Drive product sales as well as develop and grow enterprise business opportunities
  • Develop, manage and maintain strong account relationships with clients – active, passive — and potential/interested prospects
  • Contribute to tailoring presentation materials and conducting demos to accelerate acquisition, retention and revenue
  • Work cross-organisationally with tech-sales, project services, and support functions to drive successful closures
  • Document and analyze sales activities to identify process efficiencies and to drive leads to sales conversions

Ideally, as a Business Development Associate, you would have:

  • At least 2 years of experience in a SaaS sales, Commercial Sales or Enterprise Sales role
  • Strong presentation and communication skills, both oral and written
  • Self-motivation and the drive to work in a target-driven environment
  • An understanding of either capital markets, regulatory or compliance landscape, or corporate data would be a plus
  • Business level communication skills in Mandarin required

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies. To ensure that your candidature is considered, apply here or send your profile or inquiries directly to [email protected].  Submission through other channels will not be entertained.

Solutions Sales Manager

Business development
Singapore
The role

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

We are looking for a high-energy Solutions Sales Manager who has a strong technical aptitude, a background in SaaS, and a formidable sales instinct.  This role is part of our Solutions Sales team which we are expanding in our Singapore office.  The Solutions Sales Manager will drive market share by creating and delivering leads that build pipelines for our Tech Solutions Sales team.

The Solutions Sales Manager will be expected to:

  • Develop and manage a robust sales pipeline for technical solutions by engaging with prospects, partners and key customers throughout APAC
  • Identify and cultivate prospects to ensure conversion to customer acquisition, increase of customer retention and overall growth of the business in APAC
  • Accelerate customer adoption of our products and ensure that the customers understand relevant product use cases and other relevant value propositions
  • Promote a strong team dynamic with collaborative teams including those with technical, delivery and finance functions

As a Solutions Sales Manager, you would have:

  • More than five (5) years of sales or business development experience working in SaaS, tech products or software sales
  • Demonstrable experience in a hunter role within APAC countries
  • Technical background in big data analytical tools, web applications and so on or hands on experience in an SaaS role
  • Strong negotiation and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of audience
  • A good understanding and commercial awareness around software product implementation, licensing models, procurement processes and cycles implemented by relevant industries

 

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies. To ensure that your candidature is considered, apply here or send your profile or inquiries directly to [email protected].  Submission through other channels will not be entertained.

 

 

Data Engineer

Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The role

Handshakes by DC Frontiers is an award-winning DataTech company that leverages data to empower safe, informed business decisions. We are located in 7 cities and are expanding our presence across the globe.

We are hiring a Data Engineer to be based in our Kuala Lumpur office. The Data Engineer will be part of our Data and AI team that is involved in building innovative products on cutting-edge technologies to solve business problems. As a Data Engineer, you should be a data pipeline builder and a data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

Our field moves extremely quickly, and so it is important that you have a combination of curiosity and creativity. You should have strong analytical skills and the ability to combine data from different sources.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture
  • Developing and implementing (e.g., in Python) ML techniques to understand, interpret and extract features from datasets
  • Participating in building the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Python
  • Handling large amounts of sensitive data and creating, maintaining &scaling ETL pipelines to fuel web applications

If you have the following skills or seeking to develop in depth skills as below, then this role is for you!

  • Knowledge of multiple or at least one programming language such as: Python, Java, Scala, GoLang
  • Experience with relational SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
  • Hands on with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, et al
  • Some exposure to Azure, AWS or GCP

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies for this hiring.  Submit your application for a Data Engineer here or liaise directly via email to [email protected]

AI Engineer

Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The role

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company that leverages data to empower safe, informed business decisions. We are located in 7 cities and are expanding our presence across the globe.

We are looking for an Artificial Intelligence Engineer (AI Engineer) with experience and passion in Machine Learning. As an AI Engineer, you will be part of a team involved in designing, developing and deploying scalable machine learning products. This role will be based in our Malaysia office, specifically in Kuala Lumpur.

Experience and interest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) would be key to this role as an AI Engineer.  Other areas covered would be:

  • Named Entity Recognition
  • Relationship Recognition and Resolution
  • Text Classification
  • Sentiment Analysis

Your responsibilities as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer (AI Engineer) include but are not limited to:

  • Building relevant engineering pipelines and assure that the AI engine is efficient, scalable and of good quality to meet project requirements
  • Designing and developing machine learning applications and models in different domains
  • Providing impact analysis when there is a change to the existing pipeline
  • Continuously improving quality and efficiency of AI engine
  • Automating model runs as well as the deployment of model pipelines

Ideally, as an experienced Artificial Intelligence Engineer (AI Engineer), you would have:

  • Demonstrable experience with Machine Learning engineering and programming skills in Python
  • Practical experience in building RESTful APIs
  • Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), data mining, machine intelligence
  • Hands on experience of implementing and deploying machine learning models in a production environment
  • Proficiency with one or more deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, et al.

It would be a plus if you had the following:

  • Knowledge of cloud concepts and devops
  • An understanding of working with message queues
  • MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field

 

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies. To ensure that your candidature is considered, apply here or send your profile or inquiries directly to [email protected].  Submission through other channels will not be entertained

 

Internship Program – Business and Finance

Support
Singapore
The role

Handshakes by DC Frontiers is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

As part of our ongoing efforts to encourage, mould and bring in promising young talents, we are running our Internship Programme for 2023.  This is especially for business, finance, accounting and other non-IT undergraduates.  Join Handshakes as an intern and challenge yourself to think out of the box, learn new skills and develop a practical hands-on experience.  While working on exciting projects, you will be mentored and guided all throughout.

This is a chance to gain first-hand experience in a fast-paced, fun and exciting tech firm.

Submit your internship application with us here or drop an email to [email protected]

Internship Program

Technology
Singapore
The role

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

As part of our ongoing efforts to encourage, mold and bring in promising young talents, we are running our Internship Program.  The internship program offers posts within Software Engineering, Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Join Handshakes as an intern and challenge yourself to think out of the box, learn new skills and develop a practical hands-on experience. While working on exciting projects, you will be mentored and guided all throughout.

This is a chance to gain first-hand experience in a fast-paced, fun and exciting tech firm.

 

Submit your internship application with us here or drop an email to [email protected]

Associate Analyst, Data Operations

Operations
Penang, Malaysia
The role

This role will require working with your Singapore HQ and Vietnam counterparts to cover the Asian Financial Markets. As a Business Network Analyst, you will need to work with the team to extract key information of public companies for our clients, who rely on us to make vital business decisions.

We are looking for candidates who have a keen eye for detail; it is important that key information of public companies extracted and documented are precise. We move quickly as we need to ensure these information from public listed disclosures are up to date.

Candidates are required to have taken either the JELA (JobStreet English Language Assessment) or MUET (Malaysian University English Test) before applying.