Full Stack Engineer

About the job

About the Full Stack Engineer role

The Full Stack Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications across frontend and backend systems. This role takes ownership of end-to-end development, including building APIs, integrating cloud infrastructure, and supporting CI/CD and DevOps practices. Working in an agile environment, the engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions, ensures application security and performance, and develops data-driven tools such as GIS-enabled applications, dashboards, and visualisations that support analysis and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • 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

Requirements:

  • Ability to build, architect, & deliver end-to-end GIS-enabled tools that ingest data from various government
  • sources, validate and transform it, and render front-end maps and dashboards
  • Develops robust APIs, authentication, and data access controls; implements GIS data models (PostGIS/GeoServer/ArcGIS) and integrates with cloud deployment, CI/CD, and testing pipelines
  • Delivers performant, accessible map-based visualisations and tools (e.g., interactive maps, layers, filters) that enable analysts and decision-makers to explore geospatial data
  • Able to communicate well, strong conviction in the Government’s mission and good user management skills
  • Experienced in running major projects with strong management skills
  • Can think of the big picture while being able to deep-dive into details if required
  • Able to hands-on and go onsite e.g. project sites if required

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