Senior Software Engineer — Flexible Public Sector Tech

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech is hiring an experienced Software Engineer to tackle modern, production-grade challenges in a product-focused public sector setting. You will design and implement scalable solutions for Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives, collaborating across product, design, and engineering teams.

You will contribute to secure, maintainable systems while mentoring peers and improving deployment pipelines. This role starts on a 2-year contract with opportunities to grow within GovTech.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of delivering impactful solutions.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale, high-availability software systems that serve significant user bases.
• Proficiency with Next.js/React.js frontend and Java/Python/TypeScript backend.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerisation, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing robust, scalable software solutions using modern full-stack web technologies.
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Writing clean, well-tested code and conducting thorough code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
• Participating in the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance.
• Mentoring junior engineers and sharing knowledge through documentation and pair programming.
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation across multiple systems.

Skills

Software development experience

Frontend: Next.js/React

Backend: Java/Python/TypeScript

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

GovTech is hiring an experienced Software Engineer to tackle modern, production-grade challenges in a product-focused public sector setting. You will design and implement scalable solutions for Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives, collaborating across product, design, and engineering teams.

You will contribute to secure, maintainable systems while mentoring peers and improving deployment pipelines. This role starts on a 2-year contract with opportunities to grow within GovTech.