Software Engineer, Digital Platform

About the role

SPH Media, publisher of The Straits Times, The Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Berita Harian and Tamil Murasu, is looking for an engineer to build and run services on its shared digital platforms: web hosting, content APIs and search, and the company's AI platform. You will own a service in one of these areas and work with engineers across the others.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the teams that use the platforms, understand their problems and help decide what to build and how.
• Ship services and features to production and keep them fast, reliable and efficient, with meaningful alerts, graceful failure and no surprises at peak traffic or on the cloud bill.
• Fix the root cause of outages so they stay fixed.
• Use coding agents running on frontier models, give them good context, write tests that catch their mistakes and defend every change you merge.
• Build evals, monitoring and guardrails, especially for AI features.
• Write short design docs and take part in RFCs for bigger changes.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of experience building and shipping software that users depend on.
• Has owned at least one service or major feature end to end in production.
• Uses AI coding tools regularly and can describe a time one misled them and how it was caught.
• Curious about how things work under the hood: HTTP, databases, queues, caching, and how an LLM call becomes tokens and cost.
• Writes clearly, asks good questions and talks comfortably with users and non-engineers.

Required skills

• TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Rust
• AWS and Terraform
• React (SSR/ISR)
• CDN and edge compute, OpenSearch
• LLMs, RAG, MCP