Senior Software Engineer, Singapore Exams & Assessment Board (SEAB)
Senior role designing and delivering a unified digital ecosystem for Singapore's national examinations. Day-to-day involves writing technical specs, designing scalable microservices, and leading incident triage using Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Kafka, and AWS.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Deep experience in Java 17+ with strong OOP, concurrency, and performance tuning
- Deep experience with Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Cloud / Spring Security
- Deep experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience with migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway
- Experience in design and operation of event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka
- Experience architecting applications in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
- Experience in microservice architecture at scale and related patterns
Nice to have
- Experience with Spring Batch or Quartz Scheduler
- Experience with Redis for caching, session management, or distributed locking
- Experience in Elasticsearch for efficient querying / index designing
- Experience in Government / regulated industries
Full description
GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.
At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.
Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!
Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
[What you will be working on]
The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board designs and administers national examinations - PSLE, GCE N/O/A-Levels, and more, that shape the educational journey of hundreds of thousands of students every year.
Trust, integrity, and precision are not aspirational values here; they are operational requirements.
The vision is to build a unified and adaptive digital ecosystem that seamlessly connects exam administration, electronic examinations and marking - enabling SEAB to leverage technology and innovation to deliver trusted, future-ready assessments with greater operational efficiency, resilience and smoother user experiences to meet Singapore's evolving assessment needs.
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Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that serve as effective context for junior engineers and AI-tools
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Design and deliver features that span services or components, considering modularity, scalability, and resiliency
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Incorporate security, compliance, and performance as design constraints from the outset
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Author technical design documents for moderately complex features and conduct architecture reviews, providing actionable feedback
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Lead incident triage and debugging for production issues, drive post-incident reviews with concrete root cause analysis and preventive actions
[What we are looking for]Requirements
- Deep experience in Java 17+ with strong OOP, concurrency, and performance tuning fundamentals
- Deep experience with Spring related technologies Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Cloud / Spring Security (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication flows, JWT token management)
- Deep experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway