Software Engineer (TypeScript) - Co-Development Business Unit

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a Software Engineer (TypeScript) for its Co-Development Business Unit. You will work on platforms serving Singapore government agencies, building scalable, secure digital platforms and knowledge services. This is a fixed-term contract of 1 year.

Key responsibilities

• Build and integrate APIs, content management systems, search capabilities and knowledge services so government agencies and developers can discover and use GovTech products
• Define stable interfaces, versioning, error handling, testing strategies and documentation for platform components
• Develop reusable components and services that improve developer experience
• Build product discovery experiences across the Product Portal, Docs Portal and Quality Dashboard, including search, filtering, recommendations and navigation
• Integrate with product catalogues, subscriptions and onboarding workflows
• Design for high availability and resilience, and add observability (monitoring, alerting, SLOs, usage analytics)
• Implement automated testing and deployment strategies
• Improve the developer and agency experience through documentation, onboarding flows and examples
• Work with product managers, designers, UX and tenant teams to shape APIs and experiences

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline
• At least 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer or equivalent
• Ability to mentor teammates and to grasp business domain concepts
• Interest in public good and critical national infrastructure

Required skills

• Frontend technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript) and a web framework such as React, Angular or Vue
• Node.js/TypeScript is advantageous but other server-side languages are acceptable
• Strong debugging and reasoning skills

What we offer

• Competitive market salary and a variable performance bonus
• Outpatient and specialist 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 and a competency framework
• Flexible work arrangements (flexi-place, flexi-time, flexi-load)