Full Stack Engineer

About Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore's planning authority. Our mission is to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play. We plan and facilitate the physical development of Singapore, in partnership with agencies and the community, to create a vibrant, sustainable and cosmopolitan city of distinction.

URA is the Urban Planning & Design Technology Centre of Excellence (URBEX). We aim to build up strategic and critical Science, Tech and Engineering capabilities in an efficient and sustainable manner to advance urban planning and design for Singapore. We drive innovation, encourage experimentation and sharing of lessons learnt, and collaborate with partner agencies to further strengthen synergies across Whole-of-Government and streamline processes.

URA has received various awards, including the 2017 Asia Pacific Regional DX Leader in Talent Acceleration by IDC, 2019 Business Transformation Award from PSD, 2024 Public Service Science, Technology and Engineering Conference Excellence Award, and 2024 Special Achievement in GIS Award from ESRI.

About Design and Planning Lab (DPLab)

Design & Planning Lab (DPLab) is a group within URA driving URA's Urban Planning & Design Technology Centre of Excellence (URBEX) efforts. Our teams with capabilities in software development, geospatial analytics, urban science, modelling & simulation, artificial intelligence / machine learning, data governance, management and engineering, work closely with planners, architects, policy makers across various agencies, as well as external partners, to generate insights and develop tools and solutions to tackle Singapore's urban planning challenges.

Full Stack Engineer

We are hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our team developing our internal 3D geospatial web application. The primary function of this role would be to design, implement, and review cloud-native features for this geospatial platform across multiple deployments in different environments, to achieve business objectives of scalability, security and reliability.

Objectives and Responsibilities

. Understand business requirements and translate them to fit-for-purpose solutions

. Review existing cloud systems and solutions to identify areas for improvement

. Set up and configure repositories for multiple systems

. Migrate existing systems to other environments

. Establish DevOps pipelines including testing, scanning, and CICD

. Provision and manage AWS cloud resources to support application deployment and scaling

. Implement IaC using Terraform for consistent and reproducible deployments

. Integrate backend systems and APIs with frontend application

. Integrate applications with external authentication systems with secure authentication flows

. Implement security best practices throughout the development lifecycle

. Design interfaces with external systems

. Develop and review application code

. Implement solutions for observability, monitoring, and fault-tolerance

. Ensure applications comply with government security policies and standards

. Document architecture and design decisions

Required Skills and Experience

. Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services

. Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform

. Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline setup, preferably GitLab

. Proficiency in Python, Typescript, React

. Experience with software engineering and system design

. Experience with implementing best practices for system security

. Experience in observability technologies

. Experience with developing and understanding architecture diagrams

. Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail

. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

. Good communication skills for technical documentation and stakeholder interaction

. Adaptability to work with evolving requirements and technologies

. Experience designing or contributing to identity systems

Preferred Qualifications

. Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field