Senior Software Engineer - A26343

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 Senior Software Engineer

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is from 01 December 2026 to 30 November 2027.

Internal Code: A26343

What will you do?

We are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join GovTech, forward deployed to the Ministry of Education. You will maintain and support a portfolio of digital products that serve MOE schools and HQ, with All Ears as the flagship product. All Ears is MOE's identity-aware data collection platform. It processes more than 4 million submissions a year across more than 43k staff and 400k students in all MOE schools.

• The wider portfolio also includes School Cockpit Mobile, FlexiList, School Timetable Application, and OneSchoolBus. Several of these products are in a planned wind-down, so you will keep them stable and supported while their sunset or transfer paths complete.
• This is a hands-on engineering role. You will write, review, and ship code across the stack, fix defects, apply security patches, and support planned migrations, working alongside other engineers, GovTech staff, and MOE stakeholders.
• Anchor the portfolio technically: Own the technical health of All Ears and the supporting products across multiple languages and codebases, from legacy to modern stacks.
• Maintain and support: Deliver bug fixes, security patches, infrastructure upkeep, L2 and L3 support, and monitoring across the portfolio.
• Lead migrations: Complete the All Ears v2 migration and retire the legacy codebase, and decide and coordinate adaptations for planned work such as the TCI and
• Connectogram migrations to Teachers Workspace.
• Set standards and mentor: Define and enforce code review, testing, and release practices, and guide the Consultant engineer through review and pairing.
• Keep it maintainable: Keep runbooks, architecture notes, and handover material current so the products stay maintainable and transferable.
• Coordinate across teams: Work with GovTech engineers, product staff, and MOE stakeholders to align on priorities, risks, and delivery.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Experience: Minimum 7 years of hands-on full stack software engineering, including a senior or lead role.
• Languages and frameworks: Strong proficiency with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript framework (React), backend APIs and services, and relational databases
• (PostgreSQL). Proven ability to navigate, debug, and change code across several languages, codebases, and legacy systems.
• Architecture: Make sound design and architecture decisions, and reason about tradeoffs in a maintenance and migration context.
• Cloud and infrastructure: Solid knowledge of cloud-hosted applications, containerized deployments (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability and troubleshooting: Analyse logs and metrics using AWS tools such as
• ECS and CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Version control and code review: Strong practice with Git and quality gates, and experience setting review standards.
• Software lifecycle: Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile delivery on product-centric teams.
• Security-aware: Attention to secure coding practices and awareness of government security and compliance requirements.
• Coordination: Experience coordinating cross-team work and guiding less senior engineers.
• Government domain: Familiarity with government or public-sector delivery contexts.
• Self-directed: A driven, resourceful engineer who can pick up unfamiliar codebases quickly and lead without close direction.
• Pragmatic: Balances speed and quality, and makes sensible tradeoffs in a maintenance context.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: Navigates shifting priorities as products transition, sunset, or transfer.
• Collaborative: Builds good working relationships with stakeholders, teammates, and vendors, and influences across teams.
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for the stability, quality, and technical direction of the products in their care.

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.

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