Software Engineer

Overview
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Software Engineer (Cloud Application)
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Housing & Development Board .
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has been at the forefront of the Public Service Transformation effort, iteratively building towards the successful delivery of HDB’s services to our customers digitally. The Information Services Group in HDB champions this effort, developing customised IT solutions that affords HDB the flexibility and efficiency in serving its missions.
We are seeking a software engineer to join a pioneer team in HDB’s Information Services Group that embraces DevSecOps culture and practices for application development, with the goal of end-to-end delivery of IT services.
What You Will Be Working On
You will be in a pioneer team that seeks to embrace DevSecOps culture and practices for application development. The team aims to create cross-functional units responsible for end-to-end delivery of IT services, adopting a you-code-it, you-run-it approach to software product development and maintenance. The success of this endeavour will form the blueprint for subsequent in-house DevSecOps teams.
As a software engineer on this team, you will work with fellow developers, your Technical Lead, Product Owner and Delivery Manager to iteratively deliver IT solutions for both internal and external stakeholders of HDB. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to different aspects of software delivery, including solution design, CI/CD pipeline configurations, frontend and backend development, and test automation.
What We Are Looking For
Have 3+ years frontend and/or backend software engineering experience in building scalable products, with a demonstrated ability in designing and building well-structured enterprise applications on commercial cloud
Skilled in modern web application technology stack, such as React.js, Spring, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL
Experienced in development and deployment on commercial cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure
Experienced in Loosely Coupled Architecture and Application Integration Patterns, such as Microservices and Scatter-Gather, with the ability to design and architect scalable and resilient systems
Experienced in containerisation technologies, such as Docker, AWS ECS and Kubernetes
Has exposure to infrastructure provision tools, such as Terraform and Ansible
Embraces the concept of DevSecOps and CI/CD, with experience in relevant CI technologies such as Git, Jenkins, and Bamboo
Understand the concept of Secure-By-Design Lifecycle for Agile and the utilisation of technologies for SAST and DAST
Practised Test-Driven Development with the utilisation of automated testing
Exposure in performance optimisation and tuning of applications and databases
Is adaptable and thrives in dealing with uncertainties
Can articulate software problems and proposed solutions clearly
Thrives in working as a team, and embraces a team-first mentality
Good To Have
Adaptability and thrives in dealing with uncertainties
Can articulate software problems and proposed solutions clearly
Thrives in working as a team, and embraces a team-first mentality
Takes initiative, pride and ownership in work
Growth mindset
Successful candidates will be offered a 1+1 year contract in the first instance.
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All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted for the position within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.
Job Details
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Contract
Industry: Government Administration
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