Full Stack Engineer - Technical Lead (Public Sector)

The role will work closely with the in-house Solution Architect, Product Owner, Business Analyst, UI/UX Designer, QA Automation Engineer and Infrastructure Team to design, build and deliver a secure, scalable and maintainable cloud-based digital platform. The Technical Lead will translate the Solution Architect’s target architecture into working application design, guide developers, enforce engineering standards, oversee code quality, support CI/CD, coordinate security readiness and ensure the platform is ready for deployment into AWS-managed environments.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead the engineering team in the design, development and delivery of cloud-based digital platform
• Architecture Implementation: Translate solution architecture into implementable frontend, backend, API, database and deployment designs.
• Full-Stack Development: Design and develop application components using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• • API & Integration: Design secure REST APIs and integration patterns to support internal modules and future external integrations.
• Database Design: Oversee relational data modelling, schema design, transaction handling, audit logging and reporting-ready data structures.
• Cloud Application Readiness: Work with the Infrastructure Team to deploy applications into AWS environments.
• CI/CD & Release: Familiar with configuration and maintain application-level CI/CD pipelines, build processes, deployment scripts and environment-specific configurations.
• Security & Code Quality: Act as the team’s Security Champion by embedding secure coding, code review, SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning and vulnerability remediation into the sprint process.
• VAPT Readiness: Coordinate remediation of security findings from code scanning, DAST and formal VAPT reports.

Requirements

Full Stack Development

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.
• at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with experience leading small team
• Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development.

Frontend

• Strong working knowledge of React.js, TypeScript,
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience in responsive web application development.

Backend and API Development

• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, or Nest JS.
• Experience designing and securing REST APIs.

Database

• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, relational database design, SQL optimisation, data integrity and migration scripts.
• Experience with non-relational database such as DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.

Authentication, Access Control, and Security

• Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SSO
• integration, MFA concepts, RBAC, secure token/session handling and audit logging.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning and vulnerability remediation.

AWS Application Knowledge

• Working knowledge of AWS application services such as API Gateway, Lambda, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, CloudWatch and Secrets Manager.

DevOps

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker or container packaging, environment configuration and release deployment.

Benefits

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