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Backend engineeringDesigning and running the services behind a product: data models, interfaces between systems, and the tests that let other people change them safely.Asks for 5 skills and 6 tools, 8 of them essentialPays SGD 5,576 – 11,152 a month · Illustrative National Wage SurveySee What It Asks For
Data analyticsTurning records into answers a decision can rest on: the modelling underneath, the statistics that qualify the answer, and the presentation that does not overstate it.Asks for 9 skills and 6 tools, 7 of them essentialNo pay figure yetSee What It Asks For
Learning and enablementHelping other people become capable: designing the session, reading the room, and writing the thing they keep afterwards.Asks for 7 skills, 5 of them essentialNo pay figure yetSee What It Asks For
Product managementDeciding what to build and why: evidence from users, a sequence that survives contact with constraints, and the measurement that says whether it worked.Asks for 10 skills, 7 of them essentialNo pay figure yetSee What It Asks For
Programme deliveryGetting a body of work through an organisation: sequencing, the risks that are actually load-bearing, and keeping everyone who is affected genuinely informed.Asks for 10 skills, 7 of them essentialNo pay figure yetSee What It Asks For
Security engineeringFinding the ways a system can be misused before somebody else does, and closing them in the design rather than in a policy document.Asks for 6 skills, 5 of them essentialNo pay figure yetSee What It Asks For
Site reliability engineeringKeeping systems available and recoverable: the platform they run on, the signals that say they are healthy, and what happens at three in the morning when they are not.Asks for 5 skills and 5 tools, 7 of them essentialPays SGD 5,576 – 11,152 a month · Illustrative National Wage SurveySee What It Asks For

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Designing and running the services behind a product: data models, interfaces between systems, and the tests that let other people change them safely.

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Backend engineering

What the “Backend engineering” career path asks for

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How this is worked out

Skill	Type	Necessity	Level
API Design	skill	essential	3
Debugging	skill	essential	3
Distributed Systems	skill	essential	3
Git	tool	essential	3
Go	tool	essential	3
Software Testing	skill	essential	3
SQL	tool	essential	3
Code Review	skill	essential	2
Java	tool	desirable	3
Python	tool	desirable	2
TypeScript	tool	desirable	2