Product Engineer for AI-Powered Public Services

GovTech; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech, Singapore's centre for Smart Nation initiatives, seeks a Product Engineer to own products end to end, from user needs to deployment. You will turn ambiguous government problems into useful products, work with users and stakeholders, and build across frontend, backend, data, APIs, and infrastructure.

You will apply AI where it meaningfully improves the product, design secure and observable systems, and prepare products for broader adoption within GovTech's ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building working software.
• Proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go or equivalent.
• Ability to deploy, monitor, debug and operate software in a cloud or production-like environment.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous government problems into useful products that people can test and use.
• Own products end to end from user needs to deployment.
• Work directly with users and stakeholders to understand workflows and underlying needs.
• Build complete products across frontend, backend, data, APIs, integrations, infrastructure and deployment.
• Apply AI where it meaningfully improves the product and design secure, observable systems.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Python

TypeScript

Go

Product ownership

Cloud deployment

Cross-stack

Agentic tools

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

GovTech, Singapore's centre for Smart Nation initiatives, seeks a Product Engineer to own products end to end, from user needs to deployment. You will turn ambiguous government problems into useful products, work with users and stakeholders, and build across frontend, backend, data, APIs, and infrastructure.

You will apply AI where it meaningfully improves the product, design secure and observable systems, and prepare products for broader adoption within GovTech's ecosystem.