Node.js Developers in Singapore

No GST is charged on our invoice, and the invoice says so. Whether you account for it under reverse charge depends on your input tax position: IRAS's guidance is that a GST-registered business making only taxable supplies is not impacted, a partially exempt business or one with non-business receipts accounts for GST on imported services in its own return, and a business that is not registered should ask its accountant, because an exempt business importing more than S$1 million of services in a year can be required to register. We would rather your accountant confirmed your position before the first invoice than reconciled it at year end.

We build to it rather than claiming a certificate. The consent, purpose limitation and notification obligations shape the forms and the data model; retention limitation means records are deleted on a schedule rather than kept indefinitely; access and correction requests are features with a queue behind them rather than a manual database job. Processing happens in India, so the transfer limitation obligation applies, and the processor agreement we sign sets out the comparable standard of protection the Act asks for. The obligation to design for early is breach notification: an organisation has three calendar days from determining a breach is notifiable, which means one likely to cause significant harm or one affecting 500 or more people, to tell the PDPC, and answering what was in the breach is only possible if the logging existed beforehand. Appointing a Data Protection Officer is your obligation rather than ours, and we will say so if a design choice would make that person's job harder.

Not PSG. The Productivity Solutions Grant funds pre-scoped packages from pre-approved vendors for Singapore-registered companies, and a custom build from an overseas team is not that shape, so we will not pretend it is. The Enterprise Development Grant is assessed project by project against its own criteria, and whether a build like yours qualifies is a question for Enterprise Singapore or your grant consultant to answer before the scope is written rather than after a budget has assumed it.

We can supply what a due-diligence pack asks for, accept audit and access rights in the contract, and name every sub-processor that touches your data. What we will also tell you in the first conversation is what we do not hold: we are not SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified, and our security page says so in those words. Whether an engagement with us is a material outsourcing arrangement under the MAS guidelines, and what that requires of you, is your compliance team's determination, and it changes the contract before it changes the code, so it belongs in week one.

Senior Node.js developer and agency rates in India run roughly 500 to 4,000 rupees per hour depending on seniority and scope. For a dedicated developer we work on a monthly rolling retainer, and for a defined build we quote one flat INR figure with GST included against a written scope, so there is no hourly meter running in the background. Rates well under 300 rupees per hour for genuinely senior backend work usually mean juniors or change-request fees hidden in the fine print. International teams are quoted the equivalent in USD, GBP, CAD, or AED.

Hire a dedicated developer when the roadmap is still moving and you want to direct the work sprint by sprint. It is a monthly rolling contract you can stop with notice, and you get a senior engineer plugged into your standups and tools. Choose fixed-price when the scope is clear and you want a known number and a known date. Many clients start with a small fixed-price build or a paid two-week trial sprint to test how we work, then move to a retainer once they trust the output.

Yes, TypeScript is our default on the backend as well as the frontend, so your API and your React or Next.js app share types instead of drifting apart. We build on Express when you want something lightweight, Fastify when throughput matters, and NestJS when a larger team wants opinionated structure and dependency injection. Data sits on PostgreSQL (with Prisma, Drizzle, or Knex) or MongoDB (with Mongoose), Redis handles caching and queues, and we deploy to AWS with Docker and CI.

Real-time is one of Node's strengths and ours: WebSocket and Socket.IO services for chat, live dashboards, presence, notifications, and device telemetry. Node's single-threaded event loop is built for many concurrent connections doing small amounts of work each. Scaling comes from running multiple stateless instances behind a load balancer, moving session and pub/sub state into Redis, and pushing heavy or slow work into background workers so requests stay fast. We design for that from the start rather than bolting it on once the app is already struggling.

Yes, about half of our work is for teams outside India, in the US, UK, Canada, and the UAE. We work remotely on written scopes and weekly demos, so time zones have not been a problem, and we can shift our working window when a project needs more overlap. Indian clients are billed in flat INR with GST; overseas clients pay in USD, GBP, CAD, or AED through Wise, and we have a W-8BEN and an LUT on file. Work-for-hire terms with full IP transfer on payment are standard.