About Us
SPH Media’s mission is to be the trusted source of news and lifestyle content in Singapore and Asia.
One of our core purposes is to produce credible, balanced, and objective news and analysis, always with a view to uphold the public good and fostering an informed, engaged citizenry.
We welcome talented individuals to join us and grow a career in a vibrant and collaborative environment built around a culture of respect and inclusivity.
As an employer, we are committed to rewarding our people fairly and developing them in their careers.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Engineer proficient in AWS, Terraform, NodeJS and TypeScript. The successful candidate will work in a dedicated team to develop a modern website and rendering stack to serve content to readers worldwide.
Roles \& Responsibilities
Implement and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform, following existing architectural standards and module patterns.
Build, test, and manage infrastructure components for scalable service delivery.
Collaborate with the Infra team to integrate IaC with CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
Manage secrets, IAM policies, logging, monitoring, and infrastructure security configurations.
Ensure infrastructure meets reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency goals.
Develop and maintain Backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, consuming internal and external APIs.
Implement request shaping, response aggregation, and API endpoint optimization for frontend needs.
Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure fast, reliable data delivery to the web and mobile applications.
Contribute to the rendering stack responsible for delivering content to global audiences.
Write clean, tested, and maintainable code with performance in mind.
Job Requirements
10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS (including but not limited to Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, WAF).
Production-level expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, especially in Backend or middleware API layers.
Solid understanding of DevOps pipelines, infrastructure testing, and cloud deployments.
Strong attention to detail and a quality-first mindset in infrastructure and code.
Effective communicator and collaborative team member.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is a plus.
Experienced in Agile methodology to deliver projects efficiently through collaborative teamwork and iterative development.