Software Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (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 peoples lives then we would love to hear from you.

This posting is part of our Talent Pipeline Initiativewere proactively connecting with talent who are interested in future opportunities with us over the next 36 months.

While this is not for an immediate opening strong candidates will be prioritised as roles become available.

What Youll Likely Work On and depending on project needs you may:

• The Full Stack Engineer is responsible for designing developing deploying and maintaining scalable high-performance and secure web applications. The role
• requires expertise in frontend and backend development cloud technologies DevOps automation and application security. Engineers must work in an agile DevOps-driven environment ensuring high software quality security and maintainability.
• Take full ownership of end-to-end application development integrating frontend backend and cloud infrastructure.
• Design develop and maintain responsive accessible and performant web applications.
• Implement modern frontend architectures ensuring reusability scalability and security.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs ensuring reliability security and observability.
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers to ensure automated test coverage and proactively fix bugs and defects.
• Optimize full-stack CI/CD deployment strategies ensuring seamless and automated releases.
• Work with DevOps teams to automate infrastructure provisioning monitoring and cloud deployments.
• Ensure full-stack security including authentication authorization API security and frontend security best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve application performance and developer productivity.

What are we looking for

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science Computer or Electronics Engineering Information Technology or related disciplines.
• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow trunk-based development).
• Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development.

Frontend Technologies:

• JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Frontend frameworks such as Angular or Svelte.

Backend Technologies:

• NestJS.
• Ruby on Rails (RoR).
• Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot).
• Python (Django Flask FastAPI).
• Golang
• RESTful APIs GraphQL gRPC and WebSockets for service communication.

Observability & Monitoring:

• Experience implementing application performance monitoring (APM) tools (Datadog New Relic Sentry Prometheus OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of logging frameworks (ELK Stack Loki Fluentd) to track and debug issues across distributed systems.
• Ability to set up dashboards and alerts for real-time application health monitoring.

Backend Scalability & API Design:

• Strong experience in API design principles including REST GraphQL gRPC and WebSockets.
• Knowledge of API rate limiting caching strategies (Redis Varnish) and
• performance optimizations.
• Familiarity with backend service scalability strategies (horizontal scaling autoscaling load balancing).

DevOps Cloud and Infrastructure:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI ArgoCD Jenkins).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure Google Cloud Cloudflare Workers).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi).

Security Best Practices:

• Strong knowledge of frontend security (CSP CORS XSS prevention).
• Experience with backend security (OAuth JWT API rate limiting encryption).
• Familiarity with cloud security (IAM Secrets Management OWASP Top 10).

Software Quality & Testing:

• Experience with unit and integration testing (Jest Cypress Playwright Pact).
• Backend testing using Postman Supertest contract testing.
• Experience with low-code platforms (OutSystems Mendix Appian).
• Familiarity with micro-frontends and modular frontend architectures.
• Experience working with edge computing (Cloudflare Workers )

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

What Happens After You Apply:

• Your profile will be reviewed and assessed by our Talent team
• Suitable candidates may be invited for an exploratory conversation
• Youll be considered for upcoming roles that match your skills and interests
• Well keep in touch as relevant opportunities arise

Why youll 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.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat at

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd 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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