Senior/Principal Software Engineer: Cloud-Native & Mentoring

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

Job summary

HDB Housing & Development Board in Singapore seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of high-impact digital products. You will stay hands-on while guiding a cross-functional team of software engineers, product owners and operations staff.

We value strong cloud-native design, secure by design practices, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. You will mentor engineers and shape the technical direction across platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with scalable enterprise-grade products.
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery in cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on expertise in frontend and/or backend web development.
• Strong cloud-native design, security and observability focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of significant product areas while remaining hands-on.
• Set technical direction and ensure secure, maintainable designs.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Product Manager and platform teams.
• Drive live-site readiness, incident response and reliability improvements.

Skills

React

FastAPI

Express.js

Spring

Django

AWS

GCP

Azure

Tools

Docker

Amazon ECS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

HDB Housing & Development Board in Singapore seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of high-impact digital products. You will stay hands-on while guiding a cross-functional team of software engineers, product owners and operations staff.

We value strong cloud-native design, secure by design practices, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. You will mentor engineers and shape the technical direction across platforms.