Software Engineer

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.

What will you do?

• The Full Stack Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, high-performance, and secure web applications. The role
• requires expertise in frontend and backend development, cloud technologies, DevOps automation, and application security. Engineers must work in an agile, DevOps-driven environment, ensuring high software quality, security, and maintainability.
• Take full ownership of end-to-end application development, integrating frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design, develop, and maintain responsive, accessible, and performant web applications.
• Implement modern frontend architectures, ensuring reusability, scalability, and security.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs, ensuring reliability, security, and observability.
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers to ensure automated test coverage and proactively fix bugs and defects.
• Optimize full-stack CI/CD deployment strategies, ensuring seamless and automated releases.
• Work with DevOps teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and cloud deployments.
• Ensure full-stack security, including authentication, authorization, API security, and frontend security best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve application performance and developer productivity.

What are we looking for?

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.
• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow, trunk-based development).
• Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development.

Frontend Technologies:

• JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Frontend frameworks such as React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Angular, or Svelte.

Backend Technologies:

• Node.js, Express.js, NestJS.
• Ruby on Rails (RoR).
• Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot).
• Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Golang
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets for service communication.

Observability & Monitoring:

• Experience implementing application performance monitoring (APM) tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of logging frameworks (ELK Stack, Loki, Fluentd) to track and debug issues across distributed systems.
• Ability to set up dashboards and alerts for real-time application health monitoring.

Backend Scalability & API Design:

• Strong experience in API design principles, including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets.
• Knowledge of API rate limiting, caching strategies (Redis, Varnish), and
• performance optimizations.
• Familiarity with backend service scalability strategies (horizontal scaling, autoscaling, load balancing).

DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare Workers).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

Security Best Practices:

• Strong knowledge of frontend security (CSP, CORS, XSS prevention).
• Experience with backend security (OAuth, JWT, API rate limiting, encryption).
• Familiarity with cloud security (IAM, Secrets Management, OWASP Top 10).

Software Quality & Testing:

• Experience with unit and integration testing (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Pact).
• Backend testing using Postman, Supertest, contract testing.
• Experience with low-code platforms (OutSystems, Mendix, Appian).
• Familiarity with micro-frontends and modular frontend architectures.
• Experience working with edge computing (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge)

What do we offer in return?

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• To work in Singapore Government Agencies projects
• We provide structured development framework and growth opportunities. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)

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.

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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