Engineering Manager, Apps Product, DSP

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Government Technology Agency (GovTech) in Singapore seeks an Engineering Manager to lead technical direction and engineering execution across one or more teams. You will drive design, implementation, and delivery of product capabilities, while building a reliable, secure, and scalable engineering system that ships consistently.

You will define the team's vision, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, and develop a long-term technical roadmap to meet future product and infrastructure needs.

Qualifications

• Experience with large, high-availability software systems.
• Strong technical leadership and judgment beyond hands-on coding.
• Proven people leadership and ability to coach teams.
• Commitment to engineering excellence and craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern full-stack web tech: Next.js/React.js and backend in Java/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Define team engineering vision and strategy aligned with overall goals.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Security to manage roadmaps.
• Create and maintain long-term technical plans and roadmaps.
• Lead architecture reviews and design discussions to guide trade-offs.
• Ensure high-quality, reliable software delivery and healthy DevX.
• Introduce observability, incident response, and postmortems practices.
• Coach engineers and support career growth through feedback.
• Foster strong engineering culture and maximize impact.
• Participate in recruitment and onboarding for senior roles.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture guidance

People leadership

Full-stack web

Next.js

React.js

Java/TypeScript backend

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Next.js

React.js

Java

TypeScript

Job description

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

AtGovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more aboutGovTechat tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

Digital transformation within the public sector is at the heart of what GovTech does. We harness the best info communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore ( about GovTech). As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical direction and engineering execution for one (or more) teams. You will drive the design, implementation, and delivery of product capabilities owned by your team, while building a healthy engineering system that ships reliably and improves over time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining your teamʼs engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organisationʼs overall vision
  and goals.
• Partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional counterparts (e.g., Product, Design, QA, Security) to prioritise
  and manage roadmaps, delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
• Creating and maintaining a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the team; updating it regularly to meet future
  product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Staying close to technical details through architecture reviews, design discussions, and code/review practices,
  bringing sound technical judgment to guide trade-offs.
• Ensuring the team ships high-quality software predictably and sustainably; improving delivery flow, developer
  experience DevX, and engineering effectiveness.
• Building reliability and security into the teamʼs approach: observability, incident response, postmortems, and
  preventative improvements.
• Coaching and developing engineers through 11s, feedback, performance conversations, and career growth
  planning.
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering
  effectiveness and impact.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires, and contributing to onboarding

[What we are looking for]

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale
• Strong technical leadership and judgment beyond hands-on implementation: guiding architecture, raising
  engineering standards, and enabling teams to make good decisions.
• Proven people leadership experience: coaching engineers, giving actionable feedback, and helping individuals
  and teams grow.
• Strong sense of engineering excellence and craftsmanship; you understand software engineering is a team sport.
• Experience with modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like
  Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
• Ability to guide a team to achieve important goal together, communicate trade-offs clearly, and collaborate well
  across functions.
• Passion towards working for public good

What we offer you:

GovTechis an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suiteofperks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life insideGovTechat go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech