Associate Senior Digital & Technology Developer

SMEC; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

SMEC is seeking an experienced full-stack developer to deliver new features for in-house applications and extend existing systems. You will own integrations with external data sources, convert data for reporting, and enforce access control per confidential requirements.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software development and 3+ years in full-stack production environments, with strong Laravel/PHP 8+ and frontend React/Angular skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in software development lifecycle.
• Minimum 3 years full stack production experience.
• Ability to independently develop features and review peers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new features for in-house applications to meet project, client, and unit requirements.
• Maintain and extend existing applications as requirements change.
• Own integrations with external systems and data sources with retry handling and logging.
• Convert incoming data into structured form for reporting and analysis.
• Control access at user, role, and project level per confidentiality.
• Design and maintain data storage for consolidated reporting.
• Keep applications responsive and stable with large datasets.
• Run scheduled and background processing with automated notifications.
• Manage releases with tested, auditable, reversible changes.
• Maintain code quality, documentation and peer review.

Skills

Full-stack development

Angular/React with TS

Laravel (PHP 8+)

Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask)

REST APIs & integrations

JWT/OAuth, 2FA

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis caching

CI/CD & Docker

Git & code reviews

Debugging & profiling

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Azure DevOps

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver new features for in-house applications to meet project, client and unit requirements
• Maintain and extend existing applications as requirements change
• Own integrations with external systems and data sources, including scheduled transfers with retry handling and error logging
• Convert incoming data files and formats into structured form for reporting and analysis
• Control access at user, role and project level in line with client confidentiality requirements
• Design and maintain data storage, including consolidated reporting across multiple systems
• Keep applications responsive and stable under large datasets and sustained use
• Run scheduled and background processing, including automated notifications and alerts
• Manage releases so changes to live applications are tested, auditable and reversible
• Maintain code quality, documentation and peer review, and team information exchange to avoid single-person dependency
• Investigate and resolve user-reported faults across applications, data, scheduled processes and connected third-party systems
  

Required Technical Skills

Frontend

• Strong working knowledge of Angular and/or React with TypeScript – modules, routing forms, shared components
• Comfortable with UI libraries (e.g. Material), SCSS/CSS, forms, routing, and HTTP clients
• Experience with login/session handling, route guards, and API interceptors, and token refresh
• Experience showing dashboards/analytics, documents/media, or 3D/spatial content inside a web app, including charting, mapping and report/PDF export
  

Backend

• Strong Laravel experience (preferred) and solid PHP 8+ – controllers, services, Eloquent, middleware, migrations
• Experience building JSON APIs and working with external APIs
• Practical Python experience with at least one of: FastAPI, Django, Flask – for APIs, data processing, file parsing, or connector services
• Experience with integrations: REST clients, scheduled sync, webhooks, file import/export, mapping external data into DB tables, with retry handling and error logging
• Working knowledge of JWT / basic OAuth concepts, 2FA, and role/project-based access control; careful handling of API keys and secrets
• Solid MySQL and/or PostgreSQL: queries, joins, migrations, indexing basics, and related data across more than one database
• Familiarity with in-memory databases such as Redis (caching, sessions, rate limiting, locks, or queue support)
• Familiarly with message queues for email, push and background jobs
  

Platform & Engineering

• Git and pull request workflow, including code review practice
• Docker basics; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or equivalent)
• Comfortable debugging across browser, API logs, DB, Redis, queues, and external services
• Experience working in a multi-service or multi-repo project
  

Good to Have

• React Native exposure
• .NET API consumption
• Azure (App Service, containers, Key Vault)
• Message queues (RabbitMQ or equivalent)
• Experience with Mobile Application Development
• Charts, maps, PDF/export, or 3D viewer libraries
• Experience with shared document/data platforms or sensor/telemetry-style data

Experience Level

• At least 5 years in software development lifecycle
• At least 3 years full stack (frontend + backend APIs) in production
• Able to independently execute feature developments, perform code reviews, and collaborate with teammates of varying expertise and experience
• Prior experience with system integrations is a strong plus
  

About SMEC

For 75 years, SMEC has built a reputation as a trusted partner on major transport and energy infrastructure projects around the world. Our design leaders and specialist teams draw on deep expertise and experience delivering projects across a range of diverse environments, from some of the world’s most remote locations to some of the densest urban surroundings.

We understand the value of relationships to ensure that we comprehensively address all requirements at each stage in a project’s development. By closely collaborating with our clients, contractors, subcontractors and asset operators, we deliver commercially informed design thinking through local specialists who understand on-the-ground context and industry expectations.

We stand apart through our historically diverse, globally connected workforce, operating out of more than 40 countries with strong local relationships.

Our diverse workforce of professionals are highly respected experts who bring talent, experience and passion to their fields. Challenging boundaries, we look beyond the project scope to ensure we leave a positive impact in the communities we live and work in and allow present and future generations to thrive.

At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!