Software Engineer (Python, TypeScript) – Agentic AI Platform

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a Software Engineer (Python, TypeScript) for its Co-Development Business Unit. You will work on a 1-year fixed-term contract delivering an AI platform for Singapore Government Agencies, including the centralised AI Foundation Platform on Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI systems. The role is based in Singapore.

Key responsibilities

• Build, manage and monitor the centralised AI Foundation Platform on Amazon Bedrock, giving secure access to foundation models for multi-modal data extraction, understanding and generation.
• Maintain the AI infrastructure, including model access, provisioning, quotas, API integrations and service configurations.
• Design and develop full-stack platform services: backend APIs, middleware and admin or self-service portals.
• Integrate the platform with enterprise data sources, including RAG pipelines, knowledge bases and vector stores, and support model customisation and fine-tuning.
• Optimise performance, latency, throughput and cost, and monitor and report Bedrock consumption and cost against budget.
• Implement secure infrastructure aligned with Enterprise Architecture and Government ICT security policies, including IAM, network isolation, encryption and secrets management.
• Build Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines, and deploy monitoring tools for AI services.
• Build and maintain agentic AI infrastructure (agent runtime, tool and API gateway, agent memory and state) and reusable agentic modules, with guardrails, usage limits and emergency stop.
• Instrument agents with tracing, metrics and logs, define SLIs/SLOs and alerts, and onboard case management workflows to the platform.
• Contribute to the System Security Plan, prepare architecture and security submissions for the Architecture Review Board, review code and write technical documentation.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in full-stack, cloud or AI platform engineering, including at least 2 years with AI/ML or generative AI.
• Hands-on experience in at least 2 full project development life cycles.
• Experience building agentic AI systems (tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, agent memory) and implementing AI solutions in the public sector, legal or regulated environments.

Required skills

• AWS services, especially Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch and KMS.
• Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with RESTful APIs (FastAPI, Node.js) and frontends (React, Angular).
• RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases and LLM APIs/SDKs.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation) and CI/CD (GitLab, JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence).
• Docker and Kubernetes; cloud security, IAM and data protection.
• Agile methodology and excellent written and oral communication.
• Preferred: AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, ML Specialty, Generative AI Developer), LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, and IM8/GCC knowledge.

What we offer

• Competitive market salary and variable performance bonus.
• Medical coverage, life and health insurance, and flexible benefits or allowance.
• Wellness support, learning programmes, certification support and a staff development budget.
• Structured career pathways on technical, domain expert or leadership tracks.
• Flexible work arrangements (flexi-place, flexi-time, flexi-load).