Software Engineer Intern (DPL)

What The Role IsURA has undergone a digitalisation journey to harness urban science, geospatial and data analytics, modelling and simulation, and AI technologies in urban planning and design. In 2022, URA was appointed as the Whole-of-Government “Urban Planning & Design Technology Centre of Excellence” (URBEX) to digitalise and cohere the urban planning and design ecosystem in its use of data, tools and models. URA has received various awards, including the 2017 Asia Pacific Regional DX Leader in Talent Acceleration by IDC, 2019 Business Transformation Award from PSD, 2024 Public Service Science, Technology and Engineering Conference Excellence Award, and 2024 Special Achievement in GIS Award from ESRI. About Design and Planning Lab (DPLab) Be part of URA’s DPLab, which spearheads URBEX efforts in the experimentation and development of smart planning technologies through Policy-Ops-Tech collaborations. Our teams, with capabilities in data policy, governance, strategy, and engineering, product strategy, business analysis, software engineering, cloud engineering, urban design technologies, data science, AI/ML, and modelling and simulation, collaborate with planners, architects, and policymakers to create insights and digital solutions for Singapore’s urban planning challenges.What You Will Be Working OnAs an intern, you will work on ePlanner, our web platform for geospatial analytics, modelling and simulation. This application is a highly interactive Single Page Application written in React and MobX. You will get to explore different parts of the tech stack, from front-end, back-end to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to bring new tools, analytics and solvers from theory into a production environment.Learning Outcomes Gain practical experience working on a large, real-world code base Have an opportunity to make technical and architectural decisions and evaluate pros/cons Understand the gap between algorithms and implementation and take part in solutioning to bridge the gapWhat We Are Looking For Internship Period: May - Aug 2026, full-time internship preferred. Undergraduate students pursuing Computer Science or related fields. Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript and modern frontend frameworksNOTE: To facilitate the hiring process, please state your availability (part-time or full-time), including specific start and end date in your resume or application form.We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.