Associate Senior Digital And Technology Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver new features for in-house applications to meet project, client and unit requirements
• Maintain and extend existing applications as requirements change
• Own integrations with external systems and data sources, including scheduled transfers with retry handling and error logging
• Convert incoming data files and formats into structured form for reporting and analysis
• Control access at user, role and project level in line with client confidentiality requirements
• Design and maintain data storage, including consolidated reporting across multiple systems
• Keep applications responsive and stable under large datasets and sustained use
• Run scheduled and background processing, including automated notifications and alerts
• Manage releases so changes to live applications are tested, auditable and reversible
• Maintain code quality, documentation and peer review, and team information exchange to avoid single-person dependency
• Investigate and resolve user-reported faults across applications, data, scheduled processes and connected third-party systems
   

Required Technical Skills

Frontend

• Strong working knowledge of Angular and/or React with TypeScript – modules, routing forms, shared components
• Comfortable with UI libraries (e.g. Material), SCSS/CSS, forms, routing, and HTTP clients
• Experience with login/session handling, route guards, and API interceptors, and token refresh
• Experience showing dashboards/analytics, documents/media, or 3D/spatial content inside a web app, including charting, mapping and report/PDF export
   

Backend

• Strong Laravel experience (preferred) and solid PHP 8+ – controllers, services, Eloquent, middleware, migrations
• Experience building JSON APIs and working with external APIs
• Practical Python experience with at least one of: FastAPI, Django, Flask – for APIs, data processing, file parsing, or connector services
• Experience with integrations: REST clients, scheduled sync, webhooks, file import/export, mapping external data into DB tables, with retry handling and error logging
• Working knowledge of JWT / basic OAuth concepts, 2FA, and role/project-based access control; careful handling of API keys and secrets
• Solid MySQL and/or PostgreSQL: queries, joins, migrations, indexing basics, and related data across more than one database
• Familiarity with in-memory databases such as Redis (caching, sessions, rate limiting, locks, or queue support)
• Familiarly with message queues for email, push and background jobs
   

Platform & Engineering

• Git and pull request workflow, including code review practice
• Docker basics; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or equivalent)
• Comfortable debugging across browser, API logs, DB, Redis, queues, and external services
• Experience working in a multi-service or multi-repo project
   

Good to Have

• React Native exposure
• .NET API consumption
• Azure (App Service, containers, Key Vault)
• Message queues (RabbitMQ or equivalent)
• Experience with Mobile Application Development
• Charts, maps, PDF/export, or 3D viewer libraries
• Experience with shared document/data platforms or sensor/telemetry-style data

Experience Level

• At least 5 years in software development lifecycle
• At least 3 years full stack (frontend + backend APIs) in production
• Able to independently execute feature developments, perform code reviews, and collaborate with teammates of varying expertise and experience
• Prior experience with system integrations is a strong plus
   

About SMEC

For 75 years, SMEC has built a reputation as a trusted partner on major transport and energy infrastructure projects around the world. Our design leaders and specialist teams draw on deep expertise and experience delivering projects across a range of diverse environments, from some of the world’s most remote locations to some of the densest urban surroundings.

We understand the value of relationships to ensure that we comprehensively address all requirements at each stage in a project’s development. By closely collaborating with our clients, contractors, subcontractors and asset operators, we deliver commercially informed design thinking through local specialists who understand on-the-ground context and industry expectations.

We stand apart through our historically diverse, globally connected workforce, operating out of more than 40 countries with strong local relationships.

Our diverse workforce of professionals are highly respected experts who bring talent, experience and passion to their fields. Challenging boundaries, we look beyond the project scope to ensure we leave a positive impact in the communities we live and work in and allow present and future generations to thrive.

At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!