Lead & Senior Software Engineer, Core Engineering Products

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government tech agency in Singapore seeks an experienced professional for the GCC Engineering Team. You will develop and maintain the Government Commercial Cloud Platform and play a pivotal role in enhancing cloud services for government agencies. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of API/backend development experience using NodeJS and Python, alongside strong leadership skills. Join us to make a meaningful impact through technology and public service.

Benefits

Holistic and market-competitive suite of perks

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in API/backend development and integration using NodeJS and Python.
• Lead a small team of software engineers and be hands‑on.
• Practitioner in agile development and secure deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Singapore Government Commercial Cloud Platform.
• Participate in a squad for engineering excellence in cloud services.
• Contribute to automation, availability, scalability, and resiliency.

Skills

API/backend development

NodeJS

Python

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps methodologies

Automation

Communication skills

Team leadership

Agile development

Terraform

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines

Tools

GitLab

Atlassian

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

What the role is:

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:

Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) is a key platform within Singapore Government Technology Stacks to allow government agencies to create high quality and reliable government services for citizens using commercial cloud services.

GCC Engineering Team develops the required platform automations, processes, toolchain and policies/best practices to enable government agencies to develop, deploy and operate government services on the cloud in an agile yet secure manner.

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated peers, we welcome you to join GCC. These are newly created positions with many opportunities to make a difference!

What to Expect

• Participate in an in‑house engineering squad for engineering excellence in design, development and operation of the Singapore Government Commercial Cloud Platform.
• Practice and lead other development communities to develop and deploy on Government Commercial Cloud.
• Opportunities to learn and implement large scale automation with cloud landing zone across multiple Cloud Service Providers in Government Context.
• Responsible to develop and maintain the platform used by multiple government agencies.
• Be the guiding subject matter expert for DevOps methodologies, contribute to automation, availability, scalability and resiliency to the team and development communities within government.
• This role focuses on development of API, backend automation in NodeJS/Python, code deployment security with various CI/CD toolchains such as GitLab, Atlassian, Terraform.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in API/backend development and integration using NodeJS, Python
• Understand cloud infrastructure deployment and automation
• Lead a small team of software engineers before, and don’t mind being hands‑on
• Practitioner in agile development, secure pipelines and deployment automation
• Understand and willing to learn about Infrastructure as Code, Policies as Code and Git
• Familiar with cloud services such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• Appreciate or willing to learn large‑scaled distributed systems and their challenges
• Familiar with code security and open‑source tools in relevant domains
• Passionate about automation
• Good to have – practiced Terraform and Bash scripting too
• Good to have – understand Cloud Landing Zone such as Control Tower, Terraform Landing Zone, Microsoft Azure CAF
• Good to have – practiced Site Reliability Engineering principles and familiar with application monitoring tools

How to Succeed

• Strong understanding and appreciation of positive team culture. Care about growing and coaching staff
• Passion for automation for large scalable systems ensuring they are highly secured, resilient and highly available
• Have strong communication skills and belief in what you are doing
• Extremely strong team‑player, primary focus is on leveraging your experiences to help the team succeed
• Strong contributor and hands‑on in all your past experiences
• Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• Advocate for the best Engineering and DevOps principles

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe it is key to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market‑competitive suite of perks.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust you to manage your time to deliver your best.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers

About Government Technology Agency

The Government Technology Agency (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. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions. GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside‑in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. 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.