[6 months contract, renewable up to 3 years]

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical lead of squads.

Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your squads.

Your responsibilities will include:
•Drive strategic initiatives that maximize the team's positive impact on the public good, including taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals.

•Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems

•Champion engineering best practices and establish tools to optimize team effectiveness and impact, including providing technical contributions and leadership to software engineers, coaching and mentoring them toward fostering a culture of technical excellence

•Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good)

•Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.

•Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.

•Working with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
•Helping with recruitment, particularly for senior hires.

What we look out for:

•Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.

•Experience in Java and Javascript is required.

•Experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.

•Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.

•Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.

•Passion towards working for public good with interest.

•Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.- High level of self awareness

•Minimum 7 years in relevant experience

[1 year contract, renewable]

Job description:

- Build prototypes to demonstrate technology opportunities

- Design system architectures

- Write production quality code

- Manage deployments to cloud and (occasionally) on-premise infrastructure

- Learn and share knowledge in a multi-disciplinary team

What we look out for:

- Experience with modern web applications in JavaScript (ES 5/6) is a must-have

- Experience in creation/maintenance of APIs using Node.js is highly advantageous

- Experience in front-end development with React.js is highly advantageous

- Experience in automated testing using JavaScript testing frameworks/libraries such as Karma, Mocha, Chai and Sinon is highly advantageous.

- Experience with database management/usage (both relational and non-relational), and handling of data in different environments is highly advantageous.

- Experience in feature testing using a Selenium-based framework is a nice bonus.

- Experience in tooling processes for modern web applications using Webpack and Gulp is a nice bonus.

- Experience in using Docker containers, development of CI/CD pipelines, and deployment using cloud services such as AWS/PasSes/your own private servers is a nice bonus.

- Experience in the software development lifecycle in an Agile context is a plus point.

- Experience in Scrum is a plus point.

- Passion for creating products

- Keen sense of learning and self discovery

- Willingness and capability to impart knowledge

- High level of self awareness

- Ability to self manage

- Growth mindset

- Minimum 7 years in relevant experience

- Minimum 2 years experience (or equivalent level of skill/confidence) with modern web applications using JavaScript.

[1 year contract, renewable]

Job description:

- Build prototypes to demonstrate technology opportunities

- Design system architectures

- Write production quality code

- Manage deployments to cloud and (occasionally) on-premise infrastructure

- Learn and share knowledge in a multi-disciplinary team

What we look out for:

- Experience with modern web applications in JavaScript (ES 5/6) is a must-have

- Experience in creation/maintenance of APIs using Node.js is highly advantageous

- Experience in front-end development with React.js is highly advantageous

- Experience in automated testing using JavaScript testing frameworks/libraries such as Karma, Mocha, Chai and Sinon is highly advantageous.

- Experience with database management/usage (both relational and non-relational), and handling of data in different environments is highly advantageous.

- Experience in feature testing using a Selenium-based framework is a nice bonus.

- Experience in tooling processes for modern web applications using Webpack and Gulp is a nice bonus.

- Experience in using Docker containers, development of CI/CD pipelines, and deployment using cloud services such as AWS/PasSes/your own private servers is a nice bonus.

- Experience in the software development lifecycle in an Agile context is a plus point.

- Experience in Scrum is a plus point.

- Passion for creating products

- Keen sense of learning and self discovery

- Willingness and capability to impart knowledge

- High level of self awareness

- Ability to self manage

- Growth mindset

- Minimum 4 years in relevant experience

- Minimum 2 years experience (or equivalent level of skill/confidence) with modern web applications using JavaScript.

[Contract Period : 02 January 2025 to 30 September 2025]

Project Background:
The Brightline observational study at NTU will target an enrolment of N=500 students who will be onboarded onto the HOPES digital phenotyping platform. Digital phenotyping data will be collected from the participants via a wrist-wearable device and the smartphone for six months. Mental health and wellbeing scales will be taken at regular intervals and integrated with student health data collected from all students at matriculation.

The primary goal of the study is to understand the association between digital and behavioural biomarkers and mental health symptoms and well-being, and to develop associated predictive algorithms for mental health state from digital markers.

This project is going to use an existing software platform being created by the MOHT. The intention of this purchase is to hire a software engineer with python programming skills to develop, troubleshoot the software, and work closely with the business team on operational aspects from an engineering perspective

Objective: The project aims to understand the association between digital and behavioural biomarkers and mental health symptoms and well-being, and to develop associated predictive algorithms for mental health state from digital markers.

Responsibilities:

· Design, develop, and maintain web application using Django framework

· Implement best practices for code organization, version control, testing

· Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles and architectural guidelines

· Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.

· Implement best practices for code organization, version control, testing

· Troubleshoot and debug issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project timelines.

· Collaborate with DevOps to optimize performance, scalability and reliability

· Troubleshoot issues reported by the users/stakeholders, report leads and work with the leads on fixes.

· As a part of troubleshooting and requirement gathering, the engineer should be able to visit the sites in Singapore with the business team when requested.

Requirements:

· Proven experience (5+ years)

· Strong proficiency in Django framework, including ORM, views, forms, authentication, and RESTful API

· Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices

· Expertise in database design and optimization, working with relational database such as PostgreSQL, etc

· Experience working with AWS

· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering scalable and maintainable solutions.

About Strive

Strive is an online coding school for kids (8-16). We help students start and commit to their coding journeys by making coding fun and exciting. We focus, above all else, on making the process of learning joyful.

• Our mission is to make education more joyful and meaningful. We are starting with coding, but our goal is to redefine STEM education globally by creating the platform and content to teach math, science, and other subjects through coding.
• We’re a remote-first company with teachers and employees from South Africa, Singapore, India, the USA, and the Philippines.
• We’re a well-funded startup backed by YCombinator and early investors of Spotify and Facebook.

Role

At Strive, we develop teacher materials for global math and coding curriculum. This content is built on our custom platform.

We’re looking for a skilled and organised Lead Curriculum Developer to oversee the ideation, creation and delivery of this innovative educational content specifically designed for middle and high school students. In this remote position, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the pipeline of content projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining the highest quality standards.
• Leading a team of content developers, guiding them in creating engaging and effective resources that align with global educational standards, particularly for markets in the USA, Canada, and beyond.
• Creating your own content along with the team that you manage
• Researching pedagogical best practices to inform curriculum design and instructional strategies.
• Working with educators that are Strive users, to gather feedback and refine content offerings.
• Monitoring and analyzing educational data to assess the impact of curriculum materials on student learning outcomes.
• Staying current with trends in education technology and curriculum development to inform innovative practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience in curriculum development for math and/or coding education at the middle and high school levels.
• Strong python coding capability to build complex coded modules on the Strive platform
• Strong project management skills with a track record of successfully managing content development pipelines.
• Leadership abilities to mentor and guide a team of content developers.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including educators, developers, and administrators.
• Experience with instructional design methodologies that incorporate technology into learning.

Bonus

• Familiarity with global educational standards, particularly those relevant to the USA and Canada.
• Previous teaching experience in math or coding at the K-12 level.

Why you should apply