Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Software & Applications)

About the role

Singapore Polytechnic is recruiting a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Software & Applications. The role combines teaching and curriculum development with consultancy and applied research projects, and involves administrative work linked to teaching and school strategy. The appointee must be able to teach at least one of the listed subjects.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver lessons, create teaching and assessment materials and support youth and adult learners.
• Develop and maintain the teaching curriculum, reviewing it regularly and recommending improvements that enhance learning, performance and employability.
• Stay up to date with trends in software and application development.
• Support the School's strategic initiatives through committee work and projects such as process improvement and the development and management of new courses.

Required profile

• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in Software, DevOps, Platform or Database engineering.
• Passion for tinkering and hacking to understand underlying mechanisms.
• Strong interest in guiding youth and adult learners to reconstruct knowledge.
• Self-driven, independent and ready to work as a team.

Required skills

• Competence to teach in at least one of: Algorithm & Architecture Analysis, Database Systems, or Distributed Systems.
• Understanding of software development end-to-end, including trade-offs such as time/space complexity, resource utilization and system scalability.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 30 days of the closing date. The successful candidate is offered a 2-year contract initially.