Vice President, Application Development & Platform Architecture

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

Job summary

Singlife is seeking an experienced software engineering leader in Singapore to own hands-on development of API services and to drive architecture for scalable platforms. You will mentor a large engineering team and collaborate with vendors and business users to deliver secure, high-performance solutions.

The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and delivering value through modern cloud-based technologies, with a focus on Java, React, and AWS ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of working experience with API services.
• Minimum 5 years of working experience with Java framework.
• Minimum 5 years of working experience with FI.
• Working experience with front end framework such as React.
• Working experience with AWS Cloud with IaC.
• Working experience with containers framework (EKS / ECS).
• Working experience to lead a team of more than 10 engineers.
• Working experience in vendor relationship management.
• Working experience with low code / no code software such as Salesforce is preferred.
• Working experience with various Generative AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering: own high risk components, review MR
• Design and Architecture: Responsible for system low level design including infrastructure
• Ensure non functional requirements are fulfilled: scalability, availability, security, performance, resilience
• Leadership: Mentor senior & junior engineers; Provide regular feedback for improvement; Ensure coding standard & best practices are implemented; Guide team on design implementation
• Delivery Ownership: High Level Estimation; Responsible for technical scope in every sprint / releases; Manage Technical Dependency; Responsible to ensure technical debt are manage within risk tolerance
• Working with PO & Business users & vendor
• Operations: Provide support for L2 in areas such as: Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis
• Manage & Rectify vulnerability / cybersecurity related fixes
• Ensure proper logging / monitoring and alert for every deliverable

Skills

API services

Java framework

FI domain experience

React

AWS Cloud with IaC

Containers (EKS/ECS)

Team leadership (10+)

Vendor management

Salesforce / low-code

Generative AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / IT

Tools

Salesforce

AWS

EKS/ECS

React

Job description

Singlife is seeking an experienced software engineering leader in Singapore to own hands-on development of API services and to drive architecture for scalable platforms. You will mentor a large engineering team and collaborate with vendors and business users to deliver secure, high-performance solutions.

The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and delivering value through modern cloud-based technologies, with a focus on Java, React, and AWS ecosystems.