Fullstack Engineer/Data Engineer

About the job

About the Fullstack Engineer/Data Engineer role

The Full Stack Engineer / Data Engineer will be 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.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Be responsible for developing backend APIs & working on databases to support the applications
  • Experience on data transformation, flow and cleaning
  • Design, develop and deploy databases and datasets with operational data store, data lake and data virtualisation.
  • 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
  • Optimise 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, authorisation, API security, and frontend security best practices
  • Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve application performance and developer productivity
  • Manage and resolve day-to-day IT related issues pertaining to application, infrastructure or security, to facilitate smooth running of daily operations
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in low-code applications

Requirements:

  • Degree or Diploma in Computer/Computer Science or Electronics Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent
  • Proficiency in database design and various databases (e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, Athena, etc)
  • Familiar with W3C Document Object Model and customised web scraping (e.g. BeautifulSoup, react, CasperJS, PhantomJS, Selenium, Nodejs, etc)
  • Comfortable in at least one scripting language (eg. SQL, Python)
  • Proficient in building batch jobs (e.g. AWS Database Migration Services (DMS), Python, AWS Lambda, ECS Container task, Eventbridge, AWS Glue).
  • Knowledge about system design, data structure and algorithms
  • Relevant working experience as a developer or equivalent in at least 3 Agile/ full project development life cycle and a minimum of 5 years experience in relevant role
  • Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development
  • Strong problem-solving skills and able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels

Frontend Technologies:

  • JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Frontend frameworks such as React.js, Next.js, Vue.js
  • Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools (Figma)

Backend Technologies:

  • Node.js
  • RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets for service communication.

Backend Scalability & API Design:

  • Strong experience in API design principles, including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets.
  • 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).
  • Cloud solutioning and hand-on experience with AWS Cloud (ECS Fargate containers, API Gateway, RDS PostgreSQL, Networking). Government Commercial Cloud GCC will be beneficial.
  • Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Security Best Practices:

  • Strong knowledge of frontend security (CSP, CORS, XSS prevention).
  • Able to build Scripts and API Integrations with knowledge of JWT, JWKS, Cognito and Authorisers.
  • 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.

Preferred qualifications and experience:

  • Relevant experience in and knowledge of microservice architecture
  • Experience in working will LLM, e.g. Open AI, Amazon Q, Gemini
  • Familiarity with governance, adoption of digital services in enterprise IT environments.
  • Work experience and strong troubleshooting skills in resolving application, infrastructure (including desktop, server, network) and security related issues in a (Singapore) government environment