Engineering Manager: Build Impactful Public Software

NLB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) Information Services Group seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead an cross-functional team delivering high-impact digital products for Singapore's housing ecosystem. You will own people and outcomes, guiding design, development, and live operations in a you-build-it, you-run-it model.

In partnership with Technical Lead, Product Owner and Product Manager, you will shape planning, architecture, CI/CD, frontend and backend delivery, resilience

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, enterprise-grade products.
• At least 3 years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Hands-on with modern frontend and backend web development.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiar with microservices, IaC, DevSecOps practices.
• Strong collaboration with Product and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• People leadership: Lead, coach and mentor engineers across disciplines; set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and support career growth and performance development
• Team building: Drive hiring and onboarding of engineers, including technical assessments and interviews, and grow the team's capabilities in line with product and organisational needs
• Delivery: Own the team's delivery commitments: planning, prioritisation, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring predictable, high-quality iterative delivery
• Technical direction: Partner with the Technical Lead on architecture and design decisions, balancing feature delivery with technical debt, scalability, security and maintainability
• Operational excellence: Ensure the reliability, security and performance of live products, including incident management, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement of resilience and observability
• Engineering practices: Champion DevSecOps, Secure-by-Design, test automation and Agile practices, and drive improvements to team processes and developer productivity
• Stakeholder collaboration: Work with product, business and partner teams to align on priorities, communicate progress and trade-offs clearly, and represent the team's work to management

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

Frontend/Backend

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Docker

Terraform

Job description

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) Information Services Group seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead an cross-functional team delivering high-impact digital products for Singapore's housing ecosystem. You will own people and outcomes, guiding design, development, and live operations in a you-build-it, you-run-it model.

In partnership with Technical Lead, Product Owner and Product Manager, you will shape planning, architecture, CI/CD, frontend and backend delivery, resilience