Software Engineering Lead

5 days ago

Central Region, Singapore PeopleSearch Pte Ltd Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Software Engineering Lead - YM

As the Software Engineering Lead, you will take ownership of designing, architecting, and integrating scalable systems across the entire technology stack. You'll lead backend and frontend development, guide a team of engineers, and ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and future-ready. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership, making it ideal for someone who thrives on building high-quality systems while mentoring others.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and design scalable backend services with NestJS and/or Python FastAPI, ensuring solid API design, modularity, and efficient database integration.
  • Manage development and upkeep of React and React Native applications, ensuring consistency across web and mobile platforms.
  • Oversee implementation of protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and BLE for seamless connectivity between devices and services.
  • Lead full-stack integration efforts, from embedded firmware and gateways through backend microservices to cloud infrastructure.
  • Provide mentorship and leadership to software engineers; enforce quality standards via reviews and technical guidance.
  • Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automation, testing, deployment, and rollback processes are robust.
  • Collaborate with peers on technical roadmaps, architectural choices, and resource planning.
  • Ensure cloud and on-prem systems are secure, scalable, and cost-effective, with strong monitoring and incident response.
  • Promote TDD and strong testing culture with comprehensive unit and integration coverage.
  • Maintain and enforce technical documentation best practices across the team.
  • Lead troubleshooting, maintenance, and performance optimization for backend services and databases.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in software development
  • 2+ years in engineering leadership roles (team lead)
  • Strong fullstack foundation (both backend and frontend engineering)
  • Proven ability to lead or mentor Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python.
  • Experience architecting systems with NestJS and/or FastAPI, including SQL and NoSQL database design.
  • Solid expertise in React and React Native architectures.
  • Experience designing APIs with Swagger / OpenAPI.
  • Understanding of protocols: MQTT, HTTP, BLE.
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and system integration.
  • Hands-on with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
  • Skilled in deploying and scaling apps across cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Strong debugging, architectural thinking, and problem-solving ability.

Location: Central

Interested candidates kindly forward your CV to (Yamamoto Junior Lim, Reg No: R Feel free to forward this great opportunity to someone who would be a great fit for this role.

All information will be kept strictly confidential. We regret to inform that only successful applicants will be contacted.

PeopleSearch Pte Ltd

EA License No: 16S8057

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