Engineering Manager, Apps Product, DSP

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Leave benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead technical direction and engineering execution for one or more teams. You will drive design, implementation, and delivery of product capabilities while building a reliable, scalable software ecosystem for public sector transformation.

You will partner with stakeholders across Product, Design, QA and Security to align roadmaps, manage architecture, and deliver high-quality software that ships reliably and improves over time.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale, high-availability software systems.
• Proven people leadership, coaching engineers and giving actionable feedback.
• Strong sense of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

• Define team's engineering vision, strategy and roadmap aligned with the organization's goals.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Security to prioritize roadmaps and deliver incrementally.
• Develop long-term technical plans and architecture reviews to guide trade-offs.
• Ensure high-quality software delivery, improve DevX and engineering effectiveness.
• Integrate reliability and security into engineering practices (observability, incident response).
• Coach engineers, support career growth and onboarding for new hires.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People leadership

High-availability systems

Full-stack web technologies

Front-end (Next.js/React.js)

Backend (Java/TypeScript)

Cross-functional collaboration

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.

At GovTech, 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 about GovTech at 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:

• GovTech is 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 suite of perks. 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 inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

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