Lead Software Engineer / Software Engineering Manager

Housing & Development Board; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Housing & Development Board (HDB) is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for end-to-end delivery of high-impact digital products that serve Singaporeans throughout their housing journey. The role emphasizes you-build-it, you-run-it accountability, cloud-native architecture, and continuous improvement.

You will partner with the Technical Lead, Product Owner and Product Manager to shape plans, drive software delivery, and evolve

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable enterprise-grade products.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and mentor engineers across disciplines to drive growth and performance.
• Own team delivery commitments including planning, prioritisation, and risk management.
• Partner with Technical Lead and Product Owners to shape architecture, design and feasibility.
• Drive DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Secure-by-Design principles.
• Ensure reliability, security and performance of live products.

Skills

People leadership

Agile delivery

Frontend & Backend

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Test automation

Architecture guidance

Microservices

Security by design

Production operations

Tools

React

FastAPI

Express.js

Spring

Django

AWS

GCP

Azure

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Docker

ECS

Terraform

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Job description

[What the role is]

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is at the forefront of Singapore's public service transformation, delivering digital services that meaningfully impact the lives of citizens. Within HDB, our Information Services Group drives this mission by building and operating customised IT solutions that give HDB the flexibility and efficiency to serve Singaporeans well.

[What the role is]

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is at the forefront of Singapore's public service transformation, delivering digital services that meaningfully impact the lives of citizens. Within HDB, our Information Services Group drives this mission by building and operating customised IT solutions that give HDB the flexibility and efficiency to serve Singaporeans well.

Our team is growing with purpose. We're expanding our engineering capabilities to deliver HDB's most strategically significant digital products, ones that support citizens at every stage of their housing journey.

We're a full-spectrum engineering team spanning Frontend, Backend, DevOps, System Architecture, Quality, Resilience Engineering, and Tech Operations. What sets us apart is our commitment to growing people, not just products. We invest deliberate time in grooming engineers across multiple disciplines and developing the leaders within our team.

If you're passionate about engineering and want to grow, technically and as a leader, we'd love to have you on board.

[What you will be working on]

You will lead a cross-functional engineering team that owns the end-to-end delivery of high-impact digital products, from solution design through to live operations. We operate on a you-build-it, you-run-it model, and as Software Engineering Manager you will be accountable for both the people and the outcomes: building a high-performing, healthy team that delivers reliably and continues to grow.

Working in close partnership with the Technical Lead, Product Owner and Product Manager, you will shape how the team plans, builds, ships and operates software across the full lifecycle, including cloud-native architecture, CI/CD pipelines, frontend and backend development, resilience engineering, and test automation. You will also lead the team in exploring and adopting emerging technologies, including GenAI-assisted development workflows, as we continuously evolve how we build and operate software. Your key responsibilities include:

• 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

[What we are looking for]

Have 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, enterprise-grade products on commercial cloud, including at least 3 years leading or managing engineering teams, with demonstrated ability across the following:

Beyond technical and delivery skills, we are looking for a people-first leader who builds trust, fosters a team-first culture, and creates an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow. You communicate clearly with engineers, stakeholders and management alike, make sound decisions amid ambiguity, and balance competing priorities with good judgement. We value managers who lead by example, take ownership of outcomes, and bring a growth mindset: curious, open to feedback, and committed to continuously improving both the team and how it works.

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams to deliver and operate production systems, with experience in hiring, coaching and developing engineers
• Experienced in Agile delivery management, including planning, prioritisation, managing risks and dependencies, and working closely with Product Owners and Product Managers
• Strong hands-on background in modern frontend and backend web application development, with experience in frameworks such as React, FastAPI, Express.js, Spring, or Django, and able to engage credibly in code and design reviews
• Experienced in cloud-native and serverless engineering on commercial cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
• Sound understanding of loosely coupled, microservices and event-driven architectures, with the ability to guide teams in building systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient
• Familiar with relational and non-relational data stores, containerisation, and infrastructure-as-code practices, using tools such as PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Docker, Amazon ECS, and Terraform
• Experienced in establishing DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git, GitLab, and GitHub, and in embedding Secure-by-Design principles, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
• Champions engineering quality through Test-Driven Development and automated testing across the stack
• Experienced in managing live production operations, including incident response, application and database performance optimisation, and reliability improvement