Software Engineer (Contract)

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company with regional presence in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data.

We are currently hiring a Software Engineer (1 year contract) to join our Tech Solutions team, building and maintaining the services, APIs and data pipelines behind the platform our customers rely on for KYC, due diligence and investigation purposes. The role is backend-focused, with some front-end work as needed.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs in C# (.NET) and TypeScript
• Write efficient queries, schemas and data-access layers across MS SQL, PostgreSQL and Amazon DocumentDB
• Build and support data ingestion and processing for registry and corporate datasets
• Write and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for the infrastructure your solutions need on AWS
• Deploy, monitor and troubleshoot services on AWS, working with the team on CI/CD and environment configuration
• Contribute to front-end features and fixes when needed, working with the wider team on UI integration
• Write unit and integration tests, take part in code reviews, and keep technical documentation current
• Work with product, delivery and client-facing teams to scope requirements, estimate effort and support customer solution work
• Investigate and resolve production issues, following the team's security and change-management practices

Skills & Experiences

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3–5 years of professional software development experience, primarily on the backend
• Strong hands-on skills in C# (.NET) and TypeScript; backend development experience is mandatory
• Working experience with relational databases (MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and a document database (Amazon DocumentDB or MongoDB)
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Hands-on experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code with any tool (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation)
• Some front-end development exposure (e.g. HTML, CSS, a modern TypeScript framework)
• Familiarity with Git, code reviews and automated testing
• Good written and spoken English; able to explain technical work to non-technical colleagues

This is 1 year contract role subject to renewal.

Work Arrangement - 3 days work in office on hybrid working as per company policy.

Work location : Mid Valley

Nice to have skills

• Hands-on AWS experience (e.g. EC2, Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch); this is strongly preferred
• Experience with Next.js or React
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Docker
• Experience with data-heavy applications, ETL or search
• Awareness of secure coding practices and working in an ISO 27001 environment
• Interest in RegTech, KYC, due diligence or corporate data