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 for 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 Java 17+ with strong OOP, concurrency and performance tuning fundamentals.
• Experience in microservice architecture at scale, including patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads and retries.
• Experience architecting applications in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred, or GCP or Azure).
• Experience in government or regulated industries is a plus.

Required skills

• Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud and Spring Security (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT)
• Relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with migration tools like Liquibase or Flyway
• Event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka
• Good to have: Spring Batch or Quartz Scheduler, Redis, Elasticsearch

What we offer

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