Technical Lead

Astek; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Astek in Singapore is seeking a Technical Lead with 5+ years of software engineering experience and prior team leadership to drive frontend, backend and cloud initiatives. You will guide the design and delivery of scalable digital platforms across React.js, TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL, with AWS deployment and CI/CD practices.

Lead the engineering team in architecture, API security, data integrity and efficient collaboration with infrastructure and security teams to ensure robust, scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading a small engineering team

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team in the design, development and delivery of a cloud-based digital platform
• Design secure REST APIs and integration patterns to support internal modules and future external integrations
• Translate solution architecture into implementable frontend, backend, API, database and deployment designs
• Work with the Infrastructure Team to deploy applications into AWS environments
• Familiar with configuration and maintain application-level CI/CD pipelines, build processes, deployment scripts and environment-specific configurations
• Act as the team’s Security Champion by embedding secure coding, code review, SAST and vulnerability remediation into the sprint process
• Coordinate remediation of security findings from code scanning, DAST and formal VAPT reports

Skills

Frontend development

Backend development

Full-stack development

REST API design

CI/CD

Security practices

Cloud readiness

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Architectural design

Tools

React.js

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Node.js

Express.js

NestJS

Docker

AWS

Job description

ASTEK has been providing IT and Engineering solutions for some of the world’s largest industrial and services groups for more than 35 years with 10,000 passionate experts in 22 countries throughout Europe, APAC, Middle East and the Americas

Currently, we are looking for Technical Lead which would be based in Singapore

Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading a small engineering team
• Frontend: React.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web application development
• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js or NestJS
• Full-Stack Development: Design and develop application components using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL
• Database: PostgreSQL, relational database design, SQL optimisation, data integrity and migration scripts. Experience with non-relational database such as DynamoDB, and OpenSearch
• API Development: Experience designing and securing REST APIs
• DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker or container packaging, environment configuration and release deployment
• Architecture Implementation: Translate solution architecture into implementable frontend, backend, API, database and deployment designs
• API & Integration: Design secure REST APIs and integration patterns to support internal modules and future external integrations
• Database Design: Oversee relational data modelling, schema design, transaction handling, audit logging and reporting-ready data structures
• Cloud Application Readiness: Work with the Infrastructure Team to deploy applications into AWS environments
• CI/CD & Release: Familiar with configuration and maintain application-level CI/CD pipelines, build processes, deployment scripts and environment-specific configurations
• Security & Code Quality: Act as the team’s Security Champion by embedding secure coding, code review, SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning and vulnerability remediation into the sprint process
• VAPT Readiness: Coordinate remediation of security findings from code scanning, DAST and formal VAPT reports
• Technical Leadership: Lead the engineering team in the design, development and delivery of cloud-based digital platform

Good to have:

• Authentication & Access Control: Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SSO integration, MFA concepts, RBAC, secure token/session handling and audit logging
• AWS Application Knowledge: Working knowledge of AWS application services such as API Gateway, Lambda, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, CloudWatch and Secrets Manager
• Security: Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning and vulnerability remediation