Software Engineer - A26258

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 66,960 - 111,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work arrangement

Learning & development support

Career progression

Job summary

Activate in Singapore is seeking a Software Engineer for a one-year fixed-term contract to support the Singapore Titles Automated Registration System (STARS) and the eLodgement System (ELS). You will work on both legacy and modernised components to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

This role blends hands-on software development with modernization, resilience, and AI-assisted tooling, requiring collaboration with product owners, operations teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong programming and debugging skills with enterprise technologies such as Java, JSP, JavaScript, SQL/PL-SQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software for STARS and ELS across legacy and modernised components.
• Handle complex workflows for land title registration, lodgement, payment, and reporting.
• Analyse changes and implement in tightly coupled environments with many interfaces.
• Support modernization initiatives including API enablement and architecture improvements.
• Contribute to digital transformation, automation, and AI-assisted engineering outputs.

Skills

Java / JSP / JavaScript

SQL / PL/SQL

CI/CD / Automation

Secure coding

API integration

WebLogic / Tomcat

DevSecOps

Legacy modernization

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Oracle

WebLogic

Tomcat

Spring Boot

Angular

AWS

Job description

the company (“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 realise 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 looking for a Software Engineer

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

Internal Code: A26258

What will you do?

As a Software Engineer supporting SLA’s land titles and digital lodgement platforms, you will work on two of SLA’s most important legacy systems: the Singapore Titles Automated Registration System (STARS) and the eLodgement System (ELS). These systems are core to Singapore’s land registry and property transaction ecosystem, supporting land title registration, digital lodgement, payment, workflow, search, reporting, and integration with a wide range of internal and external systems.

This role combines hands‑on software engineering with legacy modernisation, operational resilience, and digital transformation. You will help maintain and enhance complex mission‑critical systems while progressively improving architecture, security, observability, developer practices, and the responsible use of AI to accelerate engineering outcomes. You will be expected to work across both change delivery and production support contexts, balancing system stability, regulatory obligations, and long‑term technical renewal.

• Develop, enhance and maintain software for STARS and ELS across both legacy and modernised components, ensuring reliability, correctness and maintainability.
• Work on complex business workflows that support land title registration, lodgement, payment, document handling, reporting and search functions.
• Analyse and implement system changes with care in a tightly coupled environment with numerous upstream and downstream interfaces.
• Support modernisation initiatives such as platform upgrades, code remediation, refactoring, API enablement, removal of obsolete components, and progressive architecture improvements.
• Contribute to digital transformation efforts, including improving system usability, automation, straight‑through processing and integration with new digital services.
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity in areas such as code analysis, documentation, test design and development acceleration, while critically reviewing all AI‑generated outputs for correctness, security, maintainability and compliance.
• Participate in incident investigation, root cause analysis, defect remediation and production support to maintain system stability and service availability.
• Strengthen engineering quality through testing, code review, secure coding, dependency hygiene, observability and DevSecOps practices.
• Collaborate with product owners, users, architects, operations teams, cybersecurity stakeholders and vendors to deliver solutions that are practical, secure and aligned with SLA’s priorities.
• Document technical design, system behaviour, integration logic and operational considerations to support knowledge retention and reduce dependency on individuals or vendors.
• In this role, you will be expected to make sound engineering trade‑offs in a legacy environment where data integrity, security, auditability and service continuity are critical. You should be comfortable working with large and complex codebases, investigating difficult defects, understanding business rules embedded in older implementations, and helping the team move progressively toward better engineering practices and future‑state architecture.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3–5 years of relevant experience in software engineering, application maintenance, or enterprise system development.
• Strong programming and debugging skills, with experience in one or more of the following: Java, JSP, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, shell scripting, or related enterprise technologies.
• Experience working with large, complex or legacy application systems, including troubleshooting production issues and understanding tightly coupled business logic.
• Familiarity with web application and enterprise platform concepts such as APIs, application servers, databases, batch processing, authentication flows, and system integrations.
• Experience with software delivery practices such as version control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management and environment management.
• Working knowledge of secure coding principles and application security practices, with appreciation of vulnerability remediation and operational risk management.
• Good analytical thinking and problem‑solving ability, with a disciplined approach to change impact assessment and root cause analysis
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of assigned work, and contribute in a structured, high‑accountability environment.
• Experience with legacy modernisation, technology refresh, code recovery, refactoring or migration initiatives.
• Experience with Oracle, WebLogic, IIS, Tomcat, Spring Boot, Angular, AWS GCC, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Exposure to DevSecOps, observability, performance monitoring, resiliency engineering or platform security controls.
• Experience in highly regulated, high‑availability or public sector environments where auditability, compliance and operational continuity are important.
• Experience supporting systems with external agency or business partner integrations.
• Practical experience using AI‑assisted engineering tools in a disciplined and governed way to improve delivery outcomes.
• Familiarity with land, registry, legal, transactional or document‑centric systems will be an advantage.
• This is a meaningful opportunity to work on systems that are foundational to Singapore’s land administration and property transaction ecosystem. You will help keep critical legacy platforms dependable today while shaping their next phase of modernisation, resilience and AI‑enabled transformation for the future.

Benefits

What do we offer in return?

• Competitive Compensation: Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.
• Benefits: Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.
• Employee Wellness: Support for your physical, mental, and overall well‑being through year‑round initiatives.
• Growth \& Development: Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)
• Career Progression: Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track.
• Competency Framework: A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.
• Flexible Work Arrangement: Staff may choose to work flexi‑place, flexi‑time, and flexi‑load based on existing framework

Why you'll love working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

the company Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. the company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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