Hybrid Software Engineer – NodeJS, Golang

at Activate Interactive

• Job title: Software Engineer – NodeJS, Golang
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Angular, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, React, TypeScript, Vue.js, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Singapore

About the role

• Software Engineer working on Smart Nation infrastructure and applications. Collaborating with teams to support Singapore's vision through innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• We develop the Smart Nation infrastructure and applications and facilitate collaboration with citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies.
• Join us as we support Singapore's vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering.
• Our objective is to catapult our government infrastructure into the new digital era with faster time to market, operational agility, automated deployment and scalability.
• We are an agile development and operations house that is bold, agile and collaborative. The team is responsible for designing, prototyping, building and operating different products and services.
• As a Software Engineer (BackEnd), you will help to level up the team's competency with your valuable past experiences.
• Experiences of failure are just as important as those of success.
• You will drive, implement, deploy, maintain and operate products or key components of your products.
• You will work closely with different teams to deliver the best possible and impactful Solutions.
• 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.
• Make a difference by taking up the key role and be part of the passionate and inspirational team.
• Ownership over feature design and implementation, with a focus on sound technical choices and maintainability. At times, this would be in collaboration with other software engineers.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Proficient in at least one programming language, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Golang, Java, Python, or C++
• Candidates with Nodejs or Golang experience are preferred
• Familiar with common Internet technologies, including but not limited to backend, database, MQ, caching, microservice architectures and/or cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute in technical discussions and solutioning sessions.
• Possess good coding and documentation habits, pay attention to code style, familiar with basic design patterns and principles, and continuously focus and optimize projects
• Autonomy to drive the direction of the product
• Chance to work on creating developer tooling systems from the ground up, from research all the way to implementation.
• Chance to work with different development teams while enabling them to be more productive at the same time
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills; communicating technically complex ideas to non-technical people effectively is a plus Having a growth mindset and willing to share knowledge to grow together with the team
• Enjoy making data driven decisions
• Understand that problems can be solved in different ways, sometimes not with engineering; understand how these solutions can and should be evaluated.
• Willing to learn and own fullstack
• Experience in frontend technologies (HTML, CSS and JS/TS) as well as any web framework (React, Angular, Vue)
• Experience in backend JavaScript (Node.js)/TypeScript or other backend frameworks
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with deployments cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Benefits

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program