Software Engineer (Real-time Collaborative Platform – Full Stack)

Job description

As a Software Engineer, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary product development team that develops and implements a scalable, real-time collaborative digital platform for creating and editing rich, interactive content. This platform is highly critical for enabling analysts to co-author data-driven reports and interactive visualisations. Your work will directly support Singapore’s national security leaders in translating complex analysis into informed strategic decisions. ### Responsibilities - Implement and enhance real-time collaboration features, including multi-user editing, conflict resolution, and state synchronization across distributed systems - Engineer interactive content experiences by developing interactive data storytelling capabilities, enabling users to create and embed dynamic charts, maps, visualizations, and data-driven content within reports - Develop scalable microservices and APIs, ensuring performance, reliability, and consistency under high-concurrency workloads - Participate in technical design discussions, proposing ideas and learning best practices in system architecture and implementation - Collaborate with product, design, and end-users to bridge the gap between complex data analysis and intuitive user experiences - Explore and prototype AI-driven features such as AI-assisted copyedit/proofreading, metadata tagging, cross-report reference validation and agent-based workflow to enhance content reliability and efficiency ### Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) - At least 2 years of software engineering experience, with a background in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent - Experience with full stack web technologies such as ReactJS, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MinIO - Experience in backend or frontend development (e.g. Java/Spring Boot or React/TypeScript), with the ability and willingness to learn new languages and frameworks as needed. - Experience with databases such as RDBMS, NoSQL, and object storage - Experience with CI/CD processes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, Kubernetes, and deploying and operating applications in cloud environment - Good understanding of system architecture design, software engineering best practices, and scalable service development. ### Nice to haves - Software development experience with agile practices - Familiarity with AI-driven development, such as building or integrating LLM-powered features, agent-based workflows, or automation tools. - Experience with WebSockets, OT (Operational Transformation), rich-text engine customization - Familiarity with AI-driven development, such as building or integrating LLM-powered features, agent-based workflows, or automation tools. - Familiarity with modern frontend tooling (e.g. Vite, Nx), and/or working within large-scale or monorepo codebases ### Why join us? - You are, and can continue to be one of the sharpest engineering minds that builds, innovates, and translates technologies into future-proofed digital solutions with precision and agility - You will have plenty of opportunities to deepen your domain expertise while developing adjacent areas of interest and competencies as part of this diverse community - The products you lead to develop, together with us, will lay one of the core foundations for the next-generation decision-enablement product for our business users - You, too, believe in harnessing data and best-in-class technologies to deliver simple, yet sophisticated products that power our analysts and leaders for the long run