Software Engineer (TypeScript) - A26236

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

Co-Development Business Unit is hiring for Software Engineer

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

Internal Code: A26235

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

What will you do?

• Building and strengthening engineering capabilities for Ministry digital products
• We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our engineering team, supporting a high-visibility, citizen-facing digital product.

• You will solve business problems and translate architectural concepts into secure, reliable production systems across the full technology stack.
• You will build and maintain applications, APIs, integrations, cloud infrastructure and serverless workloads.
• You will support both modernisation initiatives and existing production systems within a government security and compliance environment.
• You will also help strengthen engineering practices and contribute to the long-term maintainability, reliability and sustainability of our digital products.

Architecture & Compliance

• Ability to translate business requirements and architectural concepts into secure, reliable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Experience implementing application security and compliance requirements in production environments.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.
• Experience designing and implementing system integrations, APIs and event-driven solutions.
• Ability to evaluate technical options and explain architectural decisions, assumptions and trade-offs.
• From 3 - 5 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Proficiency in modern frontend development using JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience designing and building modern, responsive, and accessible web applications.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API design, system integration patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with relational database design, SQL development, performance tuning and optimisation.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform on AWS.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, including hands-on experience with EC2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, or other serverless services.
• Familiarity with IIS, Apache, Nginx, or similar web server technologies.

• Experience with application monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and production support in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of OutSystems low-code platform and C#/.NET development would be advantageous
• Ownership: Takes ownership of problems and outcomes, not just tasks, and follows through to resolution.
• User-centricity: Demonstrates empathy for users and takes pride in crafting intuitive, accessible and reliable digital services.
• Pragmatism: Balances technical excellence, delivery priorities and operational constraints, making sound trade-offs between immediate needs and long-term sustainability.
• Engineering craft: Produces maintainable, reliable, and secure solutions while continuously improving engineering practices.
• Communication & collaboration: Communicates clearly, asks questions, and respectfully challenges ideas to improve decisions and outcomes. Partners effectively with engineers, designers, product managers, and stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
• Always curious: Stays curious, embraces feedback, and keeps pace with evolving technologies and industry practices.

Application process and assessment

• To apply for the Full-Stack Software Engineer role, candidates must submit the completed technical assessment together with their application. Candidates are encouraged to complete the assessment within three calendar days.
• Objective
• Design and develop a full-stack web application that consumes publicly available data from data.gov.sg.
• High-Level Requirements
• Retrieve and integrate data from any dataset of your choice available on data.gov.sg.
• Present the data through a clear and user-friendly interface.
• Provide appropriate capabilities for users to explore and interact with the data.
• Demonstrate sound frontend and backend application design.
• Provide Infrastructure as Code (IaC) that defines the AWS infrastructure required to deploy and operate the solution.
• Include appropriate automated testing and supporting technical documentation.
• Analyse the selected dataset and present meaningful summaries or insights derived from the data.
• Candidates are free to select the technology stack, application architecture, AWS services, and implementation approach.
• Deployment to AWS is not required; however, the application must run successfully in a local environment.

Benefits

What do we offer in return?

Competitive Compensation: Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.

Benefits: Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.

Employee Wellness: Support for your physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives.

Growth & Development: Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)

Career Progression: Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track.

Competency Framework: A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.

Flexible Work Arrangement: Staff may choose to work flexi-place, flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework

Why you'll love working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat.

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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