Senior Software Engineer (NodeJS) - A26239

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 looking for a Senior Software Engineer

This is a 1-year contract role

What will you do?

You will help build a Grant Administering and Calculation Orchestrator - a modern, full-stack platform that consolidates the administration of government grants and automates the assessment of eligibility and computation of grant quantum.

The platform replaces manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with reliable, auditable, end-to-end digital services for officers and applicants.A defining characteristic of the platform is orchestration. Rather than re-implementing every capability in-house, the platform connects best-of-breed government tooling and moves data reliably from one system to another - ingesting applications and supporting documents, routing cases through review workflows, invoking decision logic to determine outcomes, and writing results back to downstream systems of record. Much of the engineering effort is in making these integrations robust, observable and repeatable.Business rules, case workflows and decision tables are built primarily on Opus, GovTech’s workflow and rules platform, so that policy and computation logic can evolve without re-deploying the core application. You will own the design and implementation of these workflows and decision services, and the integration layer that calls them.

Impact - what you will achieve:

• Establish production-grade infrastructure and CI/CD for a new grants platform, from current container-platform
• Enable multiple grant schemes to move off manual spreadsheet computation onto automated, auditable digital
• Deliver reliable system-to-system integrations connecting intake, decisioning and disbursement across government platforms
• Shape the engineering practices of an early-stage platform team

• Design, provision and manage cloud and platform infrastructure - compute, networking, containers, storage and supporting services - for development, staging and production environments on a modern container/PaaS platform, with eventual migration to government cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, release and deployment, using tools such as GitLab Cl; institute and promote continuous integration / continuous delivery practices across the team.
• Containerise and deploy the application using Docker, and manage environments declaratively with infrastructure- as-code (e.g. Terraform / OpentTofu).
• Design, build and maintain workflows and decision services on Opus (GovTech’s low-code platform) to model case management processes, eligibility rules and grant-computation logic.
• Build and harden integrations that orchestrate data between systems - ingesting applications and documents from intake services such as GatherSG, calling decision services, and writing outcomes to downstream systems of record with proper error handling, retries, idempotency and observability.
• Design, build, integrate, test and maintain complex software components across a modern full-stack codebase.
• Set up monitoring, logging and alerting so the platform is observable and operationally reliable.
• Build prototypes and propose system architectures to demonstrate technology opportunities, including the responsible use of emerging technologies such as Al to enhance the service.
• Contribute to technical specifications and provide hands-on technical consultancy across the development process within an agile, customer-oriented delivery approach.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Relevant qualifications in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Strong, hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience - provisioning and operating environments for application workloads on a modern cloud or container platform (e.g. Kubernetes, AWS, GCP or similar), covering compute, networking, secrets and access control.
• Good working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD and containerisation, with practical experience using Docker and Cl tooling such as GitLab.
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Terragrunt, Opentofu or similar).
• Comfort building integrations and orchestrating data between systems via APIs, including designing for reliability, security and traceability.
• Working familiarity with modern web / application stacks (e.g. React, Node JS) - enough to integrate with and contribute to the application layer.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a genuine curiosity for learning new technologies (e.g. low-code platforms such as Opus).
• Experience deploying and using Singapore Government commercial cloud / SGTS infrastructure, or working within the GovTech ecosystem (e.g. SHIP-HATS, Opus, GatherSG, ApplySG).
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to complex and ambiguous problems.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Comfort operating in a lean, early-stage team and helping shape engineering practices as the team grows.
• We adopt design-thinking and a customer-oriented, agile approach to deliver quality solutions. If you enjoy building solid infrastructure, automating everything that should be automated, and making disparate systems work together cleanly we'd love to hear from you.

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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