TESCOM (SINGAPORE) SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TESTING PTE LTD. is hiring for a Senior Backend Engineer internship — a 12-month, on-site Government Policy role based in CHURCH STREET, Singapore. It is an unpaid internship. It is open to university students, typically in Year 2–4. Applicants with experience in Terraform, Security Compliance, Electronics Engineering, Operational Excellence, and Trunking are a strong fit.
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a) Collaborate with Business Analysts (BA) and Product Managers to refine user stories and translate them into technical requirements. b) Work with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers to ensure automated test coverage and proactively fix bugs and defects. c) Partner with DevOps teams to automate build, deployment, and monitoring pipelines. d) Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance APIs and backend services in a cloud-native environment. e) Implement modern software development practices, including TDD, pair programming, and CI/CD. f) Conduct code reviews, enforce security best practices, and ensure software craftsmanship standards. g) Design and document system architecture, ensuring compliance with government security and regulatory standards. h) Excellent written and verbal communication skills to pitch ideas and influence stakeholders. j) End to end experience working with product team to build products. Ability to work effectively and independently under pressure and prioritize effectively to meet tight deadlines. k) Computer science, product management related degrees or diplomas are a plus. l) Optimize and improve backend systems for scalability, observability, and reliability. Page 1 of 3 Weather Data Lake Technical Skills: a) Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines. b) Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow, trunk-based development). c) Proficiency in modern backend programming languages such as: Shell Scripting, Java, Python, Golang, Node.js. d) Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). f) Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven patterns is a plus (Kafka, RabbitMQ). g) Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes). h) Experience with CI/CD pipelines (ex. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,). j) Knowledge of database technologies (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis). Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack). k) Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). l) Experience with API documentation tools such as Swagger.
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