{"id":1483302,"url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-software-engineer-backend-automation","title":"Senior Software Engineer – Backend Automation","company":{"id":1935342,"name":"Salt","domain":"welovesalt.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/welovesalt","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":64,"open_postings":1440,"ghost_share":0.603,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":53000,"max_usd":100000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":82},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"PHP","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Next.js","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T21:51:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T22:22:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":1},"description":"Back to all jobs\nSenior Software Engineer - Backend Automation\nRef: JO-2609-363672\nSingapore \n\nTech Product, Technology \n\nIT \n\n1 - 9 Employee \n\nEnvironment:\n\nHybrid \n\nContract Type:\n\nTemporary \n\nStarts:\n\n2026-11-09 \n\nApply Report issue\nWe are partnering with a leading global technology organisation to hire a Senior Software Engineer for its infrastructure automation engineering team in Singapore.\nThis is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on designing and building scalable internal applications and automation solutions that streamline complex infrastructure and operational workflows.\nYou will work across a variety of projects rather than being tied to a single product, taking ownership from understanding the business problem and designing the technical solution through to development, testing and delivery.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, build and integrate scalable applications and automation solutions for complex internal workflows.\nTake end-to-end ownership of engineering projects, from understanding business requirements and solution design through development and delivery.\nArchitect efficient, scalable systems and make appropriate technical and database design decisions.\nDevelop high-quality backend services and APIs using Python or other modern object-oriented programming languages.\nBuild and enhance user-facing application components where required.\nIntegrate information and workflows across multiple internal systems and platforms.\nAnalyse and optimise code for quality, reliability, efficiency and performance.\nIdentify and resolve scalability and performance issues while reducing technical debt.\nConduct thoughtful code reviews and implement appropriate testing, rollout and monitoring practices.\nCollaborate closely with Product, Design, Operations, Infrastructure and Engineering stakeholders across global teams.\nContribute ideas and technical recommendations across a diverse portfolio of automation projects.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n8+ years of hands-on software development experience, ideally building large-scale web, backend or enterprise systems.\nStrong backend engineering expertise with Python or another object-oriented stack such as Java, Go, Node.js or PHP.\nDemonstrated experience designing and developing new systems and applications, rather than primarily supporting or maintaining existing applications.\nStrong understanding of object-oriented programming, system design, scalable architecture and software engineering fundamentals.\nExperience building and integrating RESTful APIs / HTTP-based services.\nStrong understanding of databases, including design and performance trade-offs.\nProven experience delivering high-quality, reliable and scalable production code.\nExperience independently owning significant technical initiatives or projects.\nStrong code review, testing, deployment and monitoring practices.\nExcellent communication, documentation and stakeholder-management skills.\nNice-to-Have\nStrong hands-on Python development experience.\nFrontend development exposure using ReactJS or NextJS and willingness to work across the stack when required.\nTypeScript, JavaScript/ES6+, HTML5 and CSS3.\nGraphQL, Redis and RDBMS experience.\nShell scripting and workflow/process automation experience.\nExperience with tracking or analytics technologies such as GA or GTM.\nPrevious engineering experience within large-scale technology, banking/financial services or technology consulting environments.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.\nApply Report issue\n\nShare:","description_format":"text","description_chars":3544,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T21:51:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.397,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:7","agency","stale_co","urgency","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-software-engineer-backend-automation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-software-engineer-backend-automation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T03:35:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3106,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1894,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}