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Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN)
full-timeSingapore

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Location

Singapore

Type

full-time

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About this role

ST Engineering is a global technology, defence and engineering group with offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., serving customers in more than 100 countries. The Group uses technology and innovation to solve real-world problems and improve lives through its diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. Headquartered in Singapore, ST Engineering ranks among the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.

 

Join our Cyber Team

We are an industry leader in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience, we deliver a holistic suite of trusted cybersecurity solutions to empower cyber resilience for government and ministries, critical infrastructure, and commercial enterprises. Backed by our indigenous capabilities and deep domain expertise, we offer robust cyber-secure products and services in cryptography, cybersecurity engineering, digital authentication, SCADA protection, audit and compliance. We specialise in the design and build of security operations centres for cybersecurity professionals and provide managed security services to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of our government and enterprise customers.

 

Responsibilities

  • Design & Build: Develop backend services and microservices using event-driven patterns, workflow orchestration, and robust messaging integrations.
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Package and deploy services using Docker; manage clusters via Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Messaging & Streaming: Integrate and optimize RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redis (Pub/Sub/Streams) for asynchronous communication, backpressure handling, and exactly/atleastonce delivery semantics.
  • Architecture & Quality: Drive technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and enforce observability (metrics, logs, traces), fault tolerance, and security best practices.
  • Performance & Reliability: Profile services, tune throughput/latency, implement circuit breakers, retries, deadletter queues, and idempotency strategies.
  • CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration: Partner with DevOps to automate builds, tests, and deployments; maintain IaC-based environments and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary).
  • Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Produce clear design docs (sequence/state diagrams, data flow), operational runbooks, and mentor engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Translate product requirements into technical solutions; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and incremental delivery plans.

 

Qualifications

  • Experience: 5–8+ years in backend software engineering, with production experience in workflow enginescontainer orchestration, and message queues/streaming.
  • Programming: Proficiency in one or more of: Java (Spring/Spring Boot)GoC#/.NETNode.js (TypeScript/JavaScript), or Python.
  • Cloud & Platforms: Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Linux-based environments; familiarity with networking fundamentals for distributed systems.
  • Systems Design: Strong grasp of microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD) concepts, data consistency, and eventual consistency models.
  • Communication: Clear, structured communicator with the ability to explain complex systems to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

 

Technical Expertise

  • Workflow Engines & Orchestration
  • Containerization & Orchestrators:
  • Docker (multistage builds, image hygiene), Kubernetes (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, HPA, RBAC).
  • Messaging & Streaming
  • EventDriven Architecture
  • Observability & Reliability
  • Logging (ELK/EFK), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger), health checks, readiness/liveness probes.
  • Security & Compliance:
  • Secrets management (KMS/HashiCorp Vault), OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, role-based access, least privilege, container image scanning.

 

 

Find out more:  https://www.stengg.com/cybersecurity

 

 

ST Engineering believes in fostering a culture where team members are encouraged to overcome challenges, explore new ideas, and work together to succeed. We value individuals who are determined to push beyond the boundaries, and have a thirst for knowledge, continuous learning, and self-improvement

Other facts

Tech stack
Backend Development,Microservices,Event-Driven Architecture,Containerization,Kubernetes,Docker,Messaging,RabbitMQ,Kafka,Redis,CI/CD,DevOps,Java,Go,C#,Python

About ST Engineering Group

At ST Engineering, we apply our technology and innovation to solve real-world problems and improve lives. Our commitment to excellence and our track record as a global technology, defence, and engineering company earns us a reputation for quality and trust.

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Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Engineering Services
Founding Year: 1967

What you'll do

  • The Senior Software Engineer will design and build backend services and microservices, ensuring scalability and reliability through containerization and orchestration. They will also engage with stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical solutions and mentor other engineers.

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What does a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN) do at ST Engineering Group?

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN) at ST Engineering Group, you will: the Senior Software Engineer will design and build backend services and microservices, ensuring scalability and reliability through containerization and orchestration. They will also engage with stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical solutions and mentor other engineers..

Why join ST Engineering Group as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN)?

ST Engineering Group is a leading Engineering Services company.

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The Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud)(DSC/SN) position at ST Engineering Group is based in Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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