Senior Software Engineer, Singapore Exams & Assessment Board

About the role

The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) designs and administers national examinations such as PSLE and GCE N/O/A-Levels, serving hundreds of thousands of students each year. This Senior Software Engineer role contributes to a unified, adaptive digital ecosystem connecting exam administration, electronic examinations and marking, with a focus on trust, integrity and precision.

Key responsibilities

• Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that guide junior engineers and AI tools.
• Design and deliver features across services or components, with modularity, scalability and resiliency in mind.
• Incorporate security, compliance and performance as design constraints from the start.
• Author technical design documents for moderately complex features and run architecture reviews with actionable feedback.
• Lead incident triage and debugging for production issues, and drive post-incident reviews with root cause analysis and preventive actions.

Required profile

• Deep experience in React 18+ with TypeScript in large-scale single-page applications.
• Deep experience with Redux or an equivalent state management solution.
• Experience migrating frameworks (for example AngularJS to React) using patterns such as strangler or incremental rewrites.
• Experience in government or regulated industries, including compliance-driven development and national identity system integrations.

Required skills

• OIDC / OAuth 2.0 client-side flows, including token handling, session management and CSRF protection.
• API integration patterns: REST consumption, caching strategies, error and loading state handling.
• Nice to have: AngularJS in production-grade systems, component library and design-system development, and E2E and component testing with Cypress/Playwright or React Testing Library.

What we offer

• A total rewards package with leave benefits and employee wellness programs.
• Flexible work arrangements (subject to the job role).