Engineering Manager (RSAF)

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is recruiting a senior engineering leader to own end-to-end delivery of full-stack systems in a defence-focused context. You will set technical direction, align with product and stakeholders, and ensure security, reliability, and compliance across frontend, backend, and data layers.

Responsibilities include overseeing hiring, mentoring, and performance management; collaborating in architecture reviews; removing delivery blockers; and representing the team in governance forums.

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience with team leadership and ownership.
• Experience in secure, regulated or defence-oriented environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication with non-technical partners.
• Proven ability to lead full-stack delivery and technical direction.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and growing engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for full-stack systems and set direction.
• Ensure outputs meet security, reliability, and compliance in defence environment.
• Balance feature delivery with stability: tech debt, incidents, production upkeep.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews with tech leads and stakeholders.
• Manage people cycle: 1:1s, performance feedback, growth planning, leadership grooming.
• Lead or contribute to hiring: screening, interviews, building lean high-performing team.
• Act as primary liaison between engineering and defence stakeholders; translate needs.
• Identify and remove blockers; manage dependencies and organizational friction.
• Represent team in cross-functional planning and governance forums.
• Establish engineering quality standards: code reviews, testing, on-call practices.

Skills

Full-stack

Team leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Security-minded

Hiring/people mgmt

Technical judgment

Job description

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for your team’s full-stack systems, setting technical direction in collaboration with product and stakeholder counterparts.
• Ensure engineering output meets the security , reliability , and compliance bar required in a defence environment, across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Balance new feature delivery with operational stability — including tech-debt reduction, incident response, and maintaining systems already in production.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure decisions align with delivery timelines, business priorities, and quality standards — partnering with your team’s Lead Software Engineer(s), who hold technical design authority , and stepping in hands-on only when the team needs unblocking.
• Manage the full people-management cycle for your team: regular 1:1s, performance feedback, growth planning, and identifying future leaders.
• Lead or contribute to hiring: screening, interviewing, and building a lean, high-performing team suited to the demands of a forward-deployed setting.
• Act as the primary point of contact between your engineering team and defence-sector stakeholders, translating operational and mission requirements into engineering priorities, and communicating technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical counterparts.
• Identify and remove delivery blockers — unresolved dependencies, unclear requirements, or organisational friction between GovTech and defence stakeholders.
• Represent your team in cross-functional planning and governance forums specific to the engagement.
• Establish and uphold engineering quality standards (code review , testing, on-call/incident practices) appropriate to a mission-critical, security-conscious environment.
• Typically 8+ years of engineering experience, including priorexperience managing a team end-to-end, or equivalent experience as a senior full-stack engineer ready to step into full team ownership.
• Comfortable operating in a structured, security-conscious, or regulated environment; prior exposure to public sector , defence, or similarly high-trust settings is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management skills — able to work effectively with non-technical or operationally-focused counterparts (e.g. military personnel, government officers) and translate between technical and mission language.
• Demonstrated people-management fundamentals: coaching, feedback, performance management, and growing a team’s capability .
• Sound technical judgment across full-stack architecture, delivery , and quality practices, with the ability to stay hands-on when the team or situation requires it.
• Track record of hiring and building lean, effective teams.
• Minimum Singapore Permanent Resident status required; Singapore Citizenship may be required for specific engagements depending on security classification.