AVP, Application Development

About the role

Singlife, a homegrown financial services company offering insurance, employee benefits, investment and advisory solutions, is hiring an AVP, Application Development. The role covers analysis, development, implementation and technical governance of application components, with accountability for code quality, maintenance and compliance with standards.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse, develop, implement and support consumer applications such as the Singlife mobile app and the Mysinglife web portal, including automated unit testing and integrations
• Define technical specifications and non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) and follow agreed digital and platform strategy, standards and governance
• Own high-risk components, review MR designs and handle low-level system design including infrastructure
• Mentor junior engineers, give regular feedback and ensure coding standards and best practices are followed
• Estimate technical scope for each sprint and release, manage technical debt within risk tolerance and work with product owners, business users and vendors
• Support L2 operations: incident management, root cause analysis, vulnerability and cybersecurity fixes, and logging, monitoring and alerts
• Solve problems according to policy and escalate them; take part in tech upgrade and platform automation programmes

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years of experience with API services
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Java, Node.js or NestJS frameworks
• Minimum 5 years of experience with mobile frameworks such as React Native
• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
• Cloud and Agile certifications preferred

Required skills

• API services, Java, Node.js, NestJS, React Native
• AWS Cloud with Infrastructure as Code
• Generative AI tools (preferred)