Lead Full-Stack Engineer for AI-Driven Game Tools

Counterpunch A Virtuos Studio; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Medical healthcare

Learning opportunities

Mobility programs

R&D center exposure

Job summary

Virtuos is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to guide a diverse team in designing, implementing, and optimizing production-grade tools for video game asset pipelines and production workflows. The role emphasizes leadership, scalable backend in Python, and modern frontend skills with cloud deployment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across UI/UX, production, SRE, and IT, and contribute to architecture and agile practices while delivering robust, production-ready software.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building production applications as a full-stack engineer.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python (FastAPI or Flask), RESTful API design, and SQLAlchemy/Pydantic or similar tooling.
• Proficiency in Vue or React, including routing, state management, and component libraries.
• Experience with public cloud like AWS/GCP.
• Relational DBs (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL familiarity; caching/messaging (Redis).
• Experience with automated tests (pytest) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Git, GitLab CI/CD and Docker.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own prompting strategy at scale: system prompts, guardrails, and hyperparameters.
• Design tool interfaces for agents: MCP servers, structured IO, sub-agent patterns.
• Champion typed-agent frameworks with observability baked in.
• Evaluate and integrate local LLM options when latency or data residency demands.
• Design and build scalable backend services and secure RESTful APIs in Python.
• Model, query, and optimize data across relational and NoSQL databases; implement caching/messaging.
• Enforce authentication/authorization, input validation, and robust error handling.
• Write tests (pytest) and perform performance tuning; review code and document.
• Lead engineers, collaborate with UI/UX, production, SRE and IT; work in agile teams.

Skills

Python (FastAPI/Flask)

RESTful API design

SQLAlchemy/Pydantic

Vue/React

AWS/GCP

PostgreSQL

NoSQL (MongoDB, Vector DB)

Redis (caching)

Testing (pytest)

Git / GitLab CI/CD / Docker

Clear communication

Agent frameworks (LangChain)

AWS Solutions Architect (cert)

Tools

Docker

GitLab

Redis

LangChain

Job description

Virtuos is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to guide a diverse team in designing, implementing, and optimizing production-grade tools for video game asset pipelines and production workflows. The role emphasizes leadership, scalable backend in Python, and modern frontend skills with cloud deployment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across UI/UX, production, SRE, and IT, and contribute to architecture and agile practices while delivering robust, production-ready software.