Backend Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

This is a 12 months fixed-term contract role.

As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, deploy, and operate secure backend services that enable AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions for government systems and digital services. You will work closely with product, policy, data, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform teams to translate operational needs into reliable, production-ready systems. You are a proactive, self-motivated, and resourceful team member with strong software engineering fundamentals, backend development experience, and an interest in applying backend engineering practices to AI-enabled products and platforms.

• Design, develop, and implement backend services that support machine learning, generative AI, and other intelligent digital services for government use cases.
• Translate business, policy, and operational requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
• Build and maintain backend services for model pipelines, prompt workflows, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, APIs, integrations, and evaluation scripts.
• Conduct model and solution testing to assess accuracy, reliability, robustness, safety, bias, and fitness-for-purpose.
• Support the implementation of responsible AI controls, including guardrails, human oversight, audit logs, access controls, and explainability measures.
• Work with DevOps, cybersecurity, data, and platform teams to deploy AI solutions securely on approved government environments, including GCC where applicable.
• Support monitoring of deployed solutions for model drift, hallucination risks, performance degradation, operational errors, and security concerns.
• Assist in risk reviews, security compliance activities, vulnerability assessments, remediation tracking, and audit documentation.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and optimization for AI solutions across development, UAT, staging, and production environments.

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a relevant IT field with 1–2 years of experience in AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data science, software engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience developing backend services, APIs, integrations, or application components that support AI-enabled, enterprise, or government digital services.
• Strong programming experience in Python, with familiarity in API development, testing, and commonly used AI / machine learning libraries or frameworks.
• Experience with large language models, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agent workflows.
• Good understanding of data preparation, model evaluation, MLOps / LLMOps, monitoring, logging, and production support practices.
• Understanding of responsible AI, AI governance, data protection, security, privacy, and risk management considerations in the government context.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCC, or other approved enterprise cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevSecOps, version control, testing, monitoring, logging, and operational support processes.
• Strong troubleshooting methodology and ability to resolve issues across data, model, application, integration, and infrastructure layers.
• Good communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience implementing AI-enabled solutions in government, public sector, or regulated industry environments.
• Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks, AI safety testing, model evaluation, redteaming, and risk assessment approaches.
• Exposure to AWS AI / ML services, GCC environments, SHIP-HATS, GitLab CI/CD, or similar secure delivery platforms.
• Knowledge of enterprise monitoring, log analytics, security monitoring, and automated evaluation pipelines.
• Experience working in collaborative environments and Agile development methodologies.
• Strong analytical thinking, systematic problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• To work in Singapore Government Agencies projects
• We provide structured development framework and growth opportunities. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)