18. Software / Application Engineer (Lead)

dci consultants private limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

dci consultants private limited is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer in Singapore to deliver complex, full-stack applications. You will work across Java/Kotlin stacks, participate in design reviews, and drive agile delivery within a modern JVM ecosystem.

The role requires hands-on experience with deploying to VMs and containers, plus strong Kubernetes and Kafka expertise to support event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in complex systems.
• Strong hands-on Java or Kotlin full-stack development.
• Experience deploying applications to both virtual machines and containers.
• Strong experience building, scaling and troubleshooting full-stack apps in Kubernetes environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven distributed architectures.
• Experience delivering software using Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design reviews, estimation, and integration planning.
• Ensure code quality and defect resolution; coach engineers as needed.
• Deliver software in agile development teams.

Skills

Full-stack development

Java / Kotlin

JVM ecosystem

Agile practices

Technical leadership

Tools

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Job description

Mandatory Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in complex systems, including full-stack application delivery
• Strong hands-on experience building and deploying full-stack applications using Java or Kotlin, with experience across the related JVM ecosystem and working knowledge of the other language
• Experience deploying applications to both virtual machines and containers
• Strong experience building, scaling and troubleshooting full-stack applications in Kubernetes environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven distributed architectures
• Strong experience delivering software using Agile practices
• Experience leading design reviews, estimation, integration planning, code-quality assurance and defect resolution, and coaching engineers when required

Preferred Requirements

• Experience developing software for safety-critical or mission-critical systems
• Experience working within the SAFe framework
• Deeper Kafka knowledge covering topic and partition design, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, schema evolution, ordering, performance, resilience and fault handling

Equivalent Technologies

• Spring Boot or an equivalent JVM framework; REST or equivalent API integration; PostgreSQL or an equivalent relational database

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