Lead Fullstack Software Engineer

Our client is a Singapore public-sector digital innovation unit that builds and scales web-based products to modernise how a major government organisation operates. This role sits within a unit that owns engineering standards and culture, working on both microservice and monolithic web applications.

What You'll Do

Design, build and ship TypeScript-based web applications end-to-end — frontend, backend, relational database design, and automated testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end)

Lead web application development efforts as a technical lead or senior individual contributor, without formal people management responsibility

Help set and evolve engineering standards and coding guidelines across a department-wide engineering unit of 20-25 developers

Support technical assessments and professional development for engineering hires

Clearly explain and justify architecture and design decisions, and weigh trade-offs across development, deployment, monitoring and observability

Champion developer-experience tooling (e.g. linting, Git hooks) and drive their adoption as team standards

Give constructive, high-quality feedback in code reviews to improve readability, maintainability and efficiency

Run engineering masterclasses, tech talks or knowledge-sharing sessions to raise the engineering bar across teams

Core Key Skills

At least 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including full-stack TypeScript web development

Proven experience as a technical lead or senior engineer guiding architecture and design decisions

Strong grounding in relational database design

Solid experience with automated testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end)

Working knowledge of deployment, monitoring and observability practices for web applications

Experience with developer-experience tooling such as linters and Git hooks

Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing engineering teams

Experience contributing to or shaping engineering standards/coding guidelines across teams

Nice to Have

Experience mentoring or upskilling junior-to-mid engineers

Exposure to public-sector, defence, or other regulated-industry engineering environments

Experience running technical interviews or assessments for hiring