Senior Full Stack Engineer (Azure Cloud, DevOps & Security) A26191

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (Activate) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality cost-effective and impactful end-to-end application development like mobile and web applications and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on peoples lives then we would love to hear from you.

This is a 2 years fixed term contract role.

What will you do

The Full Stack Engineer is a pivotal role responsible for the end-to-end design development deployment and maintenance of scalable high-performance and secure web applications.

This role combines application development (AI-assisted programming) with hands-on ownership of cloud infrastructure ensuring reliable secure and scalable systems on Azure. The engineer would be working on PUBs gen-AI assisted procurement-related web application as part of PUBs AI initiative.

User Engagement & Requirements Gathering:

• Conduct user testing sessions to gather valuable feedback on application functionality and user experience.
• Actively engage with stakeholders and end-users to gather refine and translate product functionality requirements into technical specifications/ testable artifacts.

AI-Assisted Development & Code Quality:

• Own end-to-end application delivery (frontend backend and cloud) leveraging AI coding assistants to accelerate development while ensuring quality scalability and maintainability (DRY modular design separation of concerns).
• Build responsive accessible and performant web interfaces using AI to speed up development while retaining full ownership of architecture and reusability.
• Design and operate secure reliable and observable backend services and APIs guiding AI for boilerplate and tests while owning API contracts and data models.
• Review and validate all AI-generated code identifying hallucinations logic flaws and maintainability issues before integration.

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure:

• Own the end-to-end design implementation and operation of Azure infrastructure ensuring solutions are secure scalable highly available and compliant by design.
• Translate application and security requirements into well-architected Azure reference architectures balancing performance cost and operational complexity.
• Design and implement secure network topologies including segmented VNets subnet strategies private connectivity patterns (Private Endpoints VNet Integration) to eliminate public exposure of critical services and network security enforcement using NSGs
• Architect and deploy cloud-native application platforms leveraging services such as:

1. Compute: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
2. Integration: API Management (APIM)
3. Security: Key Vault Managed Identities Entra ID integration
4. Edge & Protection: Application Gateway WAF
5. Storage: Azure Blob Storage Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

• Implement secure-by-default infrastructure patterns including secret management and end-to-end encryption (in transit and at rest)

DevOps:

• Design implement and maintain full-stack CI/CD deployment strategies and pipelines ensuring automated compliant and efficient release processes.

Testing & Quality Assurance:

• Establish comprehensive automated test strategies including unit integration and end-to-end testing ensuring high code coverage.
• Resolve all identified software defects bugs to maintain application stability and integrity.

Security & Compliance:

• Ensure adherence to IM8 compliance requirements and any other emerging organizational compliance mandates.
• Implement and maintain comprehensive full-stack security measures including robust authentication authorization API security and frontend security best practices.
• Establish regular SAST SCA container image vulnerability scans and other regular security related scans and resolve identified security vulnerabilities according to compliance timeline.

What are we looking for

Full Stack Development:

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science Computer or Electronics Engineering Information Technology or related disciplines.
• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow trunk-based development).
• Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices (DRY single responsibility principle meaningful abstraction testability) and the ability to enforce these standards within an AI-augmented development workflow.
• Strong code review instincts can catch hallucinations logic errors and security issues in AI output
• Working in an agile release model engineers must be adaptable and proactive to evolving requirements and user feedback.

Technologies:

• TypeScript UI component libraries (e.g. ShadCN Tailwind CSS).
• Experience with relational databases

Security & Compliance:

• Experience with IM8 compliance and system commissioning for government projects
• Strong knowledge of frontend security (CSP CORS XSS prevention).
• Experience with backend security (OAuth JWT API rate limiting encryption).
• Familiarity with cloud security (IAM Secrets Management OWASP Top 10).

DevOps & Infrastructure:

• Proven experience setting up and managing Azure infrastructure (refer to Azure services listed in the Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure of Key Responsibilities).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).

Software Quality & Testing:

• Experience with unit and integration testing (Jest Cypress Playwright Pact).
• Backend testing using Postman Supertest contract testing.

Observability & Monitoring:

• Experience implementing application performance monitoring (APM) tools (Prometheus OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of logging frameworks (ELK Stack Loki Fluentd) to track and debug issues across distributed systems.

Backend Scalability & API Design:

• Strong experience in API design principles
• Knowledge of API rate limiting caching strategies (Redis Varnish) and performance optimizations.
• Familiarity with backend service scalability strategies (horizontal scaling autoscaling load balancing).

Bonus Experience (Added Advantage):

• Experience with government procurement processes
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

What do we offer in return

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• To work in Singapore Government Agencies projects
• We provide structured development framework and growth opportunities. (We are a SHRI 2025 Gold winner in Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring)

Why youll love working with us

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race color religion gender sexuality national origin age disability marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC