Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
Staff Software Engineer - Cyber Systems
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Lead design, development, and operation of secure software products; mentor engineering teams; ensure high-quality, integrated solutions; collaborate with stakeholders to meet business goals and enforce security best practices.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team in developing innovative software solutions that enable the organisation to effectively manage information and workflows. For this role, you will be working with highly motivated and talented peers consisting of Software engineers, DevOps engineers and UI/UX designers. As a Staff Software Engineer, you are responsible for overseeing and mentoring teams of technical personnel to develop and deploy secure and high-quality software product through adoption of good industrial practices. You will work closely with management team to deliver the right software products to realise business strategies and needs. We are looking for passionate and talented people in building right solutions and cultivating good software engineering practices within the team.
Responsibilities
- Work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and design technically sound software products that meet the business goals.
- Lead the design, development and operation of software products in organisation units.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the software teams and other stakeholders to help them make the best possible technical decisions.
- Ensure the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organisation.
- Collaborate closely with other software product teams to integrate systems across business function seamlessly.
- Be a technical mentor to help junior engineers grow in their engineering career.
Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)
- Background in Engineering or Computer Science, with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture (e.g. Micro-services, Event-drive, Cloud-native architecture) and design patterns (e.g. RESTful API, MVC, MVVM design).
- Well-versed and proficient in software design and implementation using modern tools (e.g. SonarQube, Kubernetes, GitLab) and frameworks (e.g. MERN, Spring Boot, React Native) to develop high quality software efficiently.
- Strong understanding of software security best practices to actively identify and mitigate potential security risks and vulnerabilities in software systems.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban.
- Strong communicator that can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
- At least 3 years of experience in technical leadership role leading software teams and setting technical direction.
As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.
Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies Singapore Office
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