Software Engineer - Real-Time Collaborative Platform (Full Stack)

About the role

CSIT, an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), is looking for a Software Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary product development team building a scalable, real-time collaborative digital platform for creating and editing rich, interactive content. The platform helps analysts co-author data-driven reports and interactive visualisations, supporting national security leaders in turning complex analysis into informed decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Implement and enhance real-time collaboration features, including multi-user editing, conflict resolution and state synchronization across distributed systems.
• Build interactive content experiences, such as embedding dynamic charts, maps, visualisations and data-driven content in reports.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs that perform reliably under high-concurrency workloads.
• Take part in technical design discussions and propose ideas on system architecture.
• Work with product, design and end-users to make data analysis more intuitive.
• Prototype AI-driven features such as AI-assisted proofreading, metadata tagging, cross-report reference validation and agent-based workflows.

Required profile

• At least 2 years of software engineering experience.
• Degree or professional qualification in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Backend or frontend experience (Java/Spring Boot or React/TypeScript) and willingness to learn new languages and frameworks.
• Experience with databases (RDBMS, NoSQL) and object storage.
• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Git, Kubernetes and cloud deployment.
• Nice to have: agile practices, LLM-powered features or agent workflows, WebSockets, OT and rich-text engines, modern frontend tooling (Vite, Nx) and monorepos.

Only Singapore citizens will be considered, as CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence. The employer may use AI tools to help review applications; final hiring decisions are made by people.