Staff Engineer, EMTM Product & Tech

About Us

SPH Media's mission is to be the trusted source of news and lifestyle content in Singapore and Asia.

One of our core purposes is to produce credible, balanced, and objective news and analysis, always with a view to uphold the public good and fostering an informed, engaged citizenry.

We welcome talented individuals to join us and grow a career in a vibrant and collaborative environment built around a culture of respect and inclusivity.

As an employer, we are committed to rewarding our people fairly and developing them in their careers.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer with strong expertise in designing and architecting large-scale web applications using TypeScript and modern web technologies. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our custom web framework that powers multiple digital products across our organization.

This role requires a highly experienced engineer who can drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices, and mentor teams in building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance web solutions. While familiarity with AWS and cloud technologies is important, the primary focus is on application architecture, framework design, and platform engineering.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our custom web platform and related web applications.
• Define and drive technical standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design reusable framework components, shared services, and platform capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple products.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, conducting architecture and code reviews to ensure high engineering standards.
• Develop and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, consuming internal and external APIs.
• Design and optimize APIs, request orchestration, and rendering workflows to support web and mobile applications.
• Contribute to the rendering stack responsible for delivering content to global audiences.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives, performance optimization, scalability improvements, and technical debt reduction.
• Ensure solutions meet security, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence standards.
• Write clean, tested, and maintainable code with a focus on long-term platform sustainability.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Strong experience in architecting and designing large-scale web applications and platforms.
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
• Proven experience building reusable frameworks, shared libraries, or platform capabilities used across multiple applications.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, design patterns, system integration, and API design.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and driving engineering best practices across teams.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and make sound architectural decisions aligned with business objectives.
• Good understanding of cloud-native architectures and AWS services, with the ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments and delivering projects through iterative development and cross-functional teamwork.