Analyst, Application Development

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time.

Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan's leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Analyst, Application Developer performs analysis, rectification, development for applications components and will be accountable for the maintenance, quality of code, and compliance to standards within the platform. Accountabilities include but not limited to:
• Analysis, development & implementation of application for: React.js, Microservices (Java), Automated unit testing of the deliverables
• In accordance with agreed digital/platform strategy, standards and governance for a business unit, project, program, platform or feature team
• Implementing technical specifications in accordance with the agreed digital/platform strategy incorporating service fundamentals, security, and system performance
• Driving continuous improvement through technical and process innovation to optimize the way we deliver to our customers, promoting ways to leverage business benefit at every opportunity

Key Decisions within the Role:

• In course of duties, self-discretion on priority of task assigned and when escalation is necessary, is required.

Team

• Team of 5 engineers with direct and indirect collaboration with other squad teams.

Requirements:

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of working experience with React.js
• Minimum 1 year of working experience with Rest API services is a plus
• Minimum 1 year of working experience with Java frameworks such as (J2EE EJB, Spring, Microservices) is a plus
• Minimum 1 year of working experience with microservices framework and containers is a plus
• Working experience with AWS Cloud is a plus
• Working experience with Adobe Experience Manager is a plus

Capabilities

• Ability to pick up knowledge of the application.
• Experience in application development and support.
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills
• Ability to work closely with various stakeholders to deliver technical solutions as per the agreed plan

Education

• Academic: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or related discipline (preferred)

If you find yourself able to demonstrate the criteria above, apply with us now. We look forward to your application.