Senior Software Engineer - Geylang

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Development Manager, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product Owners, QA and Software Architects to ensure high-quality, reliable, and secure application development while leveraging the latest technologies to solve complex challenges in a cloud-based environment.

We are looking for someone with a willingness and attitude to learn new skills, a passion for improving code and adopting best practices, and the agility to think and operate like a start-up, all while enjoying the stability and resources of an established company.

• Development of new features and functionality for Product Engineering products and services, including the production of unit tests as and where required
• Code reviews for products and services delivered across the wider team
• Code quality for products and services delivered by the team for whom the Senior Software Engineer is responsible
• Ensuring that products and services adhere to agreed performance KPIs and are delivered in line with Product pipeline requirements
• Ensuring that all products and services have agreed levels of test coverage, in line with pillar’s requirements, and adhere to agreed architectural and technology (including security) standards
• Provision of detailed release documentation for handover to BAU and support teams
• Support the recruitment process of technical resources

• Active participation in solutions architecture and design, including KPI definition
• Ability to act as the design authority and provide high level estimates of software deliverables for planning purposes
• Supporting the Development Manager and Head of QA to ensure continuous quality improvement in the development teams
• Proactively identify and address areas of material improvement, notably around performance, security and scalability
• Where applicable, ensuring that development team processes are aligned with technical processes prevalent in the wider company
• Ensure that all team members have a clear understanding of the overall system architecture and design components, in the context of meeting product requirements
• Experience of Agile development processes and scrum roles and responsibilities
• As required, technically lead an Agile workstream

• A minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using NodeJS / ReactJS
• Knowledge/Experience with AWS tools – Cognito for Auth, API Gateway, S3, Aurora and Amazon location services.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, eg SQL
• Experience in developing web applications
• Demonstrable experience with unit and automated integration testing
• Experience in web sessions, SSO flows and exposing REStful APIs to frontend clients
• Some experience in use of Kafka
• Extensive experience in the use of Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, and Git (BitBucket)
• Demonstrable experience in developing large distributed systems and concepts such as caching, sharding, consistent hashing, interprocess communications and brokering

• Hands-on experience in developing microservices
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker/Pod creation and management
• Some experience in Domain Driven Design, the actor model, event-sourcing and CQRS
• Secondary expertise in Python (maybe PHP) and PostgreSQL or MySQL would be beneficial
• General scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, Javascript etc.
• Experience with iOS and Android development and deployments

Domain knowledge is not required, but having worked on major eCommerce or any significant widely distributed system is.