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Category: Software Engineering

People like you are the backbone of most organisations. You string together lines of code to make things work and create new products. Now that you’re well-established in your software engineering career, it’s time to pause and think about advancing it to the next level.

Whether you’re a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer or otherwise, career advancement should always be on your mind. If you’re skilled, people will always want you – it now only depends on where you want to go. And once you’ve figured out your destination, you need to figure out what to do to get there.

Whether it’s discussing salary benefits or a possible promotion, career advancement is a broad topic to tackle. Software engineers aren’t spared of this challenge, which is why we’ve got a blog full of resources and advice just for you.

Gear up and put on your thinking cap, because we’re going to do lots of reading here.

Posted on December 17, 2018December 21, 2018

Career Aspirations: How Glints’ Data Scientist Built His Career in Tech

Software engineering? Data science? What are all these insanely huge terms, and what is it like to have a career in these fields? If being…

Posted on October 26, 2018November 7, 2018

10 software engineering networking events in Singapore to attend from October to December

Time to get busy in the last three months of the year! For software engineers and developers out there, we’ve rounded up a series of…

Posted on August 15, 2018November 7, 2018

Python, PHP, and Ruby: Deciding which language to learn first as you prepare for a mid-career switch

You’ve had it with your current job. You want to throw in the towel and pursue something you’ve always liked: programming. So it’s time for…

Posted on August 7, 2018November 7, 2018

Switching paths? Here are 5 strategies to kickstart a software developer career

Mid-career switches happen more often than you think. If you’re someone hoping to kickstart a software developer career, you’re in luck. To this day, software…

Posted on August 2, 2018November 7, 2018

How to decide between becoming a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer

Picture this: you’re fresh out of school or your first internship, with several programming languages under your belt. With a knack for web development, your…

Posted on August 2, 2018November 7, 2018

Diving into DevOps and Regional Marketing at Shopee: Kelvin Ang, Carmen Foong

Are you a Shopee fan? We’ve got two awesome interviews for you right here with Shopee’s DevOps Engineer and Regional Marketing Associate! Kelvin, the DevOps…

Posted on July 30, 2018November 7, 2018

Behind the scenes: Scoot’s pilots and fleet technical specialist share their work experience

If you’ve ever had a quick overseas getaway, you’ll know the name Scoot like second nature. But do you know what it’s like to work…

Posted on July 24, 2018November 7, 2018

A day in the life of a software engineer in Circles.Life: Xyriz Tan

Still curious about what goes inside Asia’s most disruptive digital telco? Or just wondering what an engineer in Circles.Life does? We’ve got another software engineer,…

Posted on July 24, 2018November 7, 2018

A day in the life of an engineer in Circles.Life: Mayank Sharma

Have you ever wondered what a typical Circles.Life engineer does on a daily basis? Let’s meet Mayank, Circles.Life’s Senior Software Engineer, who just moved to…

Posted on July 23, 2018November 7, 2018

A day in the life of a software engineer intern in ShopBack: Bernard Koh

What goes on inside a company like ShopBack? You know the one – the digital platform that gives you cashback to alleviate some of that…

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