Software Engineer - A26404

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

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

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

Internal Code: A26404

What will you do?

Build Scalable Digital Platforms and Knowledge Services

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that enable government agencies, developers, and AI-powered systems to discover, understand, and adopt GovTech products and services.
• Build and integrate APIs, content management systems, search capabilities, and knowledge services to deliver accurate, structured, and accessible product information across multiple platforms.
• Define stable interfaces, versioning approaches, error handling, testing strategies, and documentation for platform components.
• Develop reusable components, services, and abstractions that simplify integration, improve developer experience, and accelerate the delivery of new capabilities.

Build Product Discovery and Adoption Experiences

• Develop intuitive, user-facing experiences across Product Portal, Docs Portal, and Quality Dashboard that help government agencies and developers discover, evaluate, and use GovTech products.
• Build product discovery features such as search, filtering, recommendations, and contextual navigation to help users find relevant products and technical information.
• Integrate with shared platform capabilities, including product catalogues, subscriptions, and onboarding workflows, to provide seamless experiences across the product adoption journey.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to turn complex user needs into simple, effective digital experiences.

Ensure Quality and Reliability

• Design for high availability and resilience — our platforms serve thousands of government developers and agencies daily.
• Build observability into services: monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and usage analytics that surface issues before users do.
• Implement automated testing and deployment strategies that let the team ship confidently at pace.

Improve the Developer and Agency Experience

• Use delivery signals and user feedback to identify friction and prioritize targeted improvements.
• Produce clear documentation, onboarding flows, and examples that reduce the learning curve.
• Collaborate with UX and product to iterate on interfaces grounded in real usage.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Work with tenant and product teams to understand their integration, deployment, and operations needs.
• Partner across platform engineering, product, and design to shape APIs and experiences.
• Gather feedback from real usage and improve platform capabilities iteratively.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Strong ownership and collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively with UX and Product Management.
• Growth mindset and willingness to share knowledge to grow together with the team.
• Enjoy making data driven decisions while leaving ego aside.
• Understand that problems can be solved in different ways, sometimes not with engineering; understand how these solutions can and should be evaluated.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or related disciplines
• At least 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer or equivalent position
• Demonstrate the ability to build high-quality, secure software
• Think clearly about abstract problems, with strong debugging and reasoning skills
• Experience in frontend technologies (HTML, CSS and JS/TS) as well as any web framework (React, Angular, Vue etc)
• Experience in Node.js/TypeScript will be advantageous, though we are open to other server-side languages
• Mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft
• Able to grasp business domain concepts and set appropriate technical directions at the right level of abstraction
• Care deeply about public good, and understand the responsibility of working on critical national infrastructure
• We value ability, initiative, communication, and strong integrity.

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.

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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