Engineering Manager, National Environment Agency (NEA)

GovTech; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package

Flexible work arrangements

Leave benefits + wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech is Singapore's lead agency for Smart Nation and public sector digital transformation. The organisation focuses on data science, application development, smart city tech, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity.

We offer robust learning opportunities and a mission to build tech for public good. At NEA projects, the Engineering Manager/Staff Software Engineer will steer technical direction, drive product delivery, and ensure scalable, secure systems across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large software teams with end-to-end ownership.
• Hands-on across the tech stack: infra, client, backend, data.
• Strong in modern web technologies and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering vision and roadmap aligned with goals.
• Architect, implement, and deliver multiple products.
• Maintain high-availability systems and scale them.
• Guide performance reviews, mentoring, and growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize roadmaps.
• Lead recruitment for senior engineering roles.

Skills

Technical leadership

Full-stack development

Cloud infrastructure

Agile / CD / TDD

Frontend (Next.js/React)

Backend (Java/TypeScript)

Docker / Kubernetes

Public-sector experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

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

At National Environment Agency (NEA), we are always on the lookout for high performing individuals who share our aspiration of making Singapore one of the world's best living environments.

As an Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for technical direction and processes in one (or more) teams. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your team.

Your responsibilities will include

• Defining your team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization's overall vision and goals.
• Staying on top of industry development, and highly well versed in how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Excellent knowledge of implementing systems using Bespoke, COTS, SaaS solutions ( (e.g. ServiceNow, Dynamics) across the enterprise. Experience with cloud technologies and IT transformation programs.
• Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
• Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed. Update the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Work regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed.
• Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team.
• Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.

What we are looking for

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Right candidate must be technically hands on and experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.
• Worked on the full stack development and built end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems.
• Very well versed in the software development teams using Agile, modular design, Software automation, Continuous Delivery approach as TDD, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, Cloud infrastructure setup and automation .
• Experience in 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. Knowledge of cloud technology such as Azure, AWS and Docker or Kubernetes is preferred.
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
• Passion towards working for public good with interest.
• The ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together.
• Minimally 5+ year of development experience and 2+ years of experience coaching developers; helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers.

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.

What we offer you

• 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/Con