Full Stack System Engineer (Public Sector)

1-year contract, renewable Government project Hybrid work arrangement The Role You'll design, build, and operate the APIs, microservices, and backend platforms that power LTA's digital services — working at the intersection of full stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform reliability. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes production seriously: clean code, tested thoroughly, monitored properly. What You'll Do Design and build RESTful and event-driven APIs and microservices in TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, and Python Deploy and operate containerised services on Kubernetes (EKS) ; manage health checks, rolling deployments, and service configuration Implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code for automated build, test, and deployment on AWS Integrate with LTA's existing infrastructure — databases, message queues, third-party APIs Build observability into everything: structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting dashboards Translate stakeholder requirements into well-defined API contracts, data models, and system specs Contribute to architecture discussions and platform scalability decisions Support production on a rotating on-call basis What We're Looking For Must-haves 2–4 years building and shipping production services on AWS with TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Python Strong grounding in API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes , and CI/CD tooling Comfort owning a feature end-to-end: from API design through deployment and incident response Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Strong pluses CKA/CKAD or equivalent practical Kubernetes experience AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer Associate, or DevOps Engineer) Terraform or CDK for infrastructure provisioning Experience with government or public sector projects and compliance requirements (PDPA) GitHub portfolio or open-source contributions Master's degree in a relevant field Nice…