Senior Backend Engineer — Build Next-Gen Public Platform

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable services for the Parents Gateway and related platforms. You will own critical systems from design through production, collaborating with product, UX, and education teams.

You will work on cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and modern architectures using AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC, while upholding secure coding and reliable operations.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong professional software engineering experience, with depth in backend development, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering or related areas.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language or ecosystem, such as TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go, Java or similar.
• Experience designing and building production backend systems, APIs and distributed services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, containerisation and related technologies such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery practices.
• Good understanding of production operations, including monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, incident management and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including automated testing, code quality, software design and secure development practices.
• Ability to independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, evaluate alternatives and drive solutions from design through implementation.
• Experience contributing to technical direction, conducting meaningful code and design reviews, and mentoring other engineers.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Build the Next Generation of PG: Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs and platform capabilities that will form the foundation of the new Parents Gateway.
• Architecture & Technical Direction: Shape key architectural and technology decisions across backend services, data, integrations and cloud infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Cloud & Platform Engineering: Design and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and shared platform capabilities that enable engineers to build and ship effectively.
• Reliability & Operations: Build for production from day one through strong observability, monitoring, performance, security and operational resilience.
• End-to-End Ownership: Own systems from technical design and implementation through deployment and production operations, while continuously improving the platform as it evolves.
• Engineering Excellence: Raise engineering standards through good software design, automated testing, code and design reviews, and mentorship of other engineers.
• You will also work closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, Education Officers and fellow engineers to turn real problems faced by schools and parents into well-designed technical solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Site Reliability Engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable services for the Parents Gateway and related platforms. You will own critical systems from design through production, collaborating with product, UX, and education teams.

You will work on cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and modern architectures using AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC, while upholding secure coding and reliable operations.