Senior Software Engineer - A26074

Senior Software Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd ("Activate") is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team. If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people's lives, then we would love to hear from you.

Co-Development Business Unit is hiring for Senior Software Engineer. You will work in Singapore Government Agencies. This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

What will you do?

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can work independently on key priority projects while contributing strategically to ministry-wide initiatives. This role requires someone who can balance immediate project delivery with building reusable capabilities that benefit the broader ministry family.

The ideal candidate understands trade-offs, delivers outcomes on time, and leaves behind patterns and practices that enable other teams.

Strategic Technical Delivery

• Lead and deliver priority projects independently with minimal oversight, ensuring timely completion while maintaining quality standards
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance project timelines, scope, budget constraints, and long-term sustainability
• Navigate complex modernization efforts involving legacy systems (Java, Appian, OutSystems, Pega Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics)
• Identify and manage critical technical dependencies early in project lifecycles, ensuring stakeholders understand constraints and impacts on delivery timelines

Ministry Family Contribution

• Build solutions with reusability in mind - create patterns, frameworks, and infrastructure that can be leveraged across multiple ministry systems
• Document architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and lessons learned to enable knowledge sharing across teams
• Contribute to shared technical goals and continuous improvement processes across the ministry family
• Mentor and enable other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and establishing best practices that others can adopt

Trade-off Management & Decision Making

• Evaluate when to build custom solutions versus adopting existing platforms, considering factors like data sovereignty, operational complexity, and organizational constraints
• Balance immediate delivery needs with establishing sustainable infrastructure for future initiatives
• Navigate competing priorities between perfect solutions and pragmatic approaches that meet current needs while allowing for future evolution
• Understand and communicate the implications of technical debt, making conscious decisions about when to incur it and how to manage it
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated progression in technical complexity and scope
• Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices
• Experience with modern tech stacks relevant to government systems (e.g., Java, Salesforce, Kotlin, cloud platforms like GCC/AWS)
• Proven ability to work with both greenfield development and brownfield modernization projects
• Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability

Strategic & Leadership Capabilities

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining alignment with broader organizational goals
• Track record of making pragmatic technical decisions that consider business constraints, timelines, and long-term sustainability
• Experience contributing to technical strategy beyond immediate project boundaries - establishing standards, creating reusable components, or building shared infrastructure
• Ability to articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Evidence of knowledge sharing through documentation, mentorship, or establishing practices that enable other teams

Problem-Solving & Execution

• Strong analytical skills with evidence-based problem-solving approach backed by testing and validation
• Ability to identify root causes beyond surface-level symptoms (e.g., database indexing issues masked as front-end performance problems)
• Proactive in identifying technical dependencies, risks, and constraints early in project lifecycles
• Comfortable working within government constraints (security requirements, compliance needs, data sovereignty) while finding pragmatic solutions
• Government or highly regulated industry experience with understanding of compliance, security, and governance requirements
• Experience with platform migrations or modernization initiatives (legacy system upgrades, cloud migrations, technology stack changes)
• Background in establishing technical standards or creating reusable frameworks used across multiple projects or teams
• Familiarity with grant management, social services systems, or ministry family domain knowledge