Job Description

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

Thales Singapore Engineering Competence Centre (ECC) is a well-established R&D and engineering centre serving major customers worldwide in Digital Identity and Security domains ranging from mobile connectivity, IoT, banking & payment to government solutions.

The Mobile Connectivity Solution (Digital Engineering Services) Mobile team is responsible for developing secure mobile SDKs and apps for Trusted Digital solution that involves mobile & backend that is used by worldwide customers.

A week in the life of a Software Engineer (iOS)

• You will participate in the design, implementation and validation of mobile (iOS), SDK libraries and applications.
• You will work together with local and remote development team to deliver the common features with agile development methodologies.
• You will contribute to the improvement of existing technology platform/baseline, development methodology and product evolution through prototyping and patent proposal.
• You are also required to work together with the team in creating test strategies, test plans, automated test codes, test execution, follow up and reporting
• You will perform peer code review to ensure code quality and that team follows best engineering practices
• You will participate in security risk assessment of mobile solutions - identifying assets, attacks and relevant applicable mitigations
• You will actively collaborate with world-wide technical organization and strategic partner on daily basic. Provide technical consultation to project team and distance counterparts.
• You will need to support customer deployment and maintenance activity when required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 to 3 years of work experience in mobile software development. Candidate with lesser experience but have strong hand-on experience in mobile application development will also be considered
• Competences:

• Proficiency in mobile application development for iOS (Swift or Objective C) & on relevant core platform technologies is an advantage
• Possess excellent programming skills. Kotlin knowledge (or Java) will be a strong advantage
• Knowledge on PKI, cryptographic and mobile app security.
• Strong knowledge on unit testing and test automation is mandatory
• Strong experience with API design (client-server projects) and mobile SDK development
• Experience with mobile device hardware API (e.g. NFC, BLE, Biometric, Camera, Sensor, Secure Element, etc)
• Experience with continuous integration and build automation (GIT/ Mercurial/Jenkins)
• Strong interest in mobile application ecosystems
• Able to demonstrate one or many of the following: open source project, coding competitions / hackathon, app publication or technical white paper.
• Team player
• Fluent in English & excellent technical writing skills
• Motivated self-starter, independent, autonomous & fast learner
• Logical, creative problem-solving skills and excellent analytical skills
• Willing to travel occasionally and work with remote teams when required
• Comfortable to work with parties across multiple geographical sites and flexible in working hours

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!