Full Stack Software Engineer - #1602

JOBSTER PRIVATE LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JOBSTER PRIVATE LTD. is seeking a hands-on Senior Full Stack Engineer to help maintain and migrate the All Ears platform. You will own end-to-end development across frontend and backend, ensuring stability, security, and performance across codebases.

Collaborating with GovTech engineers, product staff, and MOE stakeholders, you will apply Docker, AWS, CI/CD, and OpenTelemetry practices while iterating features with React and PostgreSQL.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of hands-on full stack software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript framework (React).
• Backend APIs and services experience; relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Cloud-hosted applications, containerised deployments (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support the portfolio: Keep All Ears and the supporting products stable through bug fixes, security patches, infrastructure upkeep, L2 and L3 support, and monitoring.
• Ship full stack changes: Build and update frontend and backend features across multiple codebases and languages.
• Support migrations: Complete the All Ears v2 migration and retire the legacy codebase, and adapt products for planned work such as the TCI and Connectogram migrations to Teachers Workspace.
• Keep it maintainable: Keep runbooks, technical notes, and handover material current so the products stay maintainable and transferable.
• Collaborate across teams : Work with GovTech engineers, product staff, and MOE stakeholders to align on priorities and delivery.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Agile delivery

Security awareness

Tools

Git

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS ECS

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and support the portfolio: Keep All Ears and the supporting products stable through bug fixes, security patches, infrastructure upkeep, L2 and L3 support, and monitoring.
• Ship full stack changes: Build and update frontend and backend features across multiple codebases and languages.
• Support migrations: Complete the All Ears v2 migration and retire the legacy codebase, and adapt products for planned work such as the TCI and Connectogram migrations to Teachers Workspace.
• Keep it maintainable: Keep runbooks, technical notes, and handover material current so the products stay maintainable and transferable.
• Collaborate across teams : Work with GovTech engineers, product staff, and MOE stakeholders to align on priorities and delivery.

What we are looking for

• Experience: Minimum 4-7 years of hands-on full stack software engineering.
• Languages and frameworks: Proficiency with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript framework (React), backend APIs and services, and relational databases (PostgreSQL). Comfort working across more than one language and codebase.
• Cloud and infrastructure: Working knowledge of cloud-hosted applications, containerised deployments (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability and troubleshooting: Analyse logs and metrics using AWS tools such as ECS and CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Version control and code review: Proficiency with Git and quality gates.
• Software lifecycle: Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile delivery on product-centric teams.
• Security-aware: Attention to secure coding practices and awareness of government security and compliance requirements.

Nice to have

• Government domain: Familiarity with government or public-sector delivery contexts.

Personal attributes

• Self-directed: A driven, resourceful engineer who can pick up unfamiliar codebases quickly.
• Pragmatic: Balances speed and quality, and makes sensible tradeoffs in a maintenance context.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: Navigates shifting priorities as products transition, sunset, or transfer.
• Collaborative: Builds good working relationships with stakeholders, teammates, and vendors.
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for the stability and quality of the products in their care.