Senior Software Engineer (Reimagine Engineering), Software Engineering Practice

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards

Flexible work arrangements

Leave benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

We are the GTO – Software Engineering Practice within GovTech, dedicated to uplifting engineering

Qualifications

• Strong backend software engineering experience in Node.js and/or Golang.
• Deep understanding of the full SDLC from coding to CI/CD and operations.
• Curious, collaborative mind with focus on developer experience and tooling.
• Experience with open-source practices and internal tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain developer tools, libraries, and guidance to improve engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define best practices for software development and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering standards across GovTech.

Skills

Backend Node.js

Golang

Developer workflows

SDLC

Secure software

Open‑source

Mentoring

Platform engineering

DX tooling

Tools

Dev Containers

Job description

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

What you will be working on

We are the GTO – Software Engineering Practice within GovTech, dedicated to uplifting engineering standards, tools, and practices across the organization. Our mission is to reimagine how software is built, tested, shipped, and maintained - by empowering engineering teams with the tools, libraries, and guidance they need to succeed.

We build and steward key initiatives that shape how GovTech engineers work every day such as:

• The GovTech Developer CLI, a unified command-line experience for onboarding and day-to-day tasks
• Starter Kits and Software Libraries to accelerate secure, consistent development
• The GovTech Developer Handbook, a central source of truth for engineering practices and guidelines

We work across the full software development lifecycle - from local dev environments to production delivery - to drive engineering excellence, consistency, and velocity across public digital services. We also serve as practice enablers, helping to propagate best practices, gather community feedback, and champion a culture of engineering excellence across GovTech.

Our north star

• Reduce the time it takes for an engineer to deliver value to production to under one hour.
• We aim to first raise the bar within GovTech, and ultimately scale this impact across Whole-of-Government (WOG) engineering teams through common tooling, standards, and shared communities of practice.

Shape the Developer Experience

Design, build, and maintain tools like the GovTech Developer CLI, starter kits, and common libraries that improve how engineers onboard, develop, and ship software.

Build Foundational Libraries and Kits

Develop reusable Node.js and Golang libraries, templates, and patterns that enable teams to adopt secure-by-default and production-ready practices.

Lead CI/CD and Automation Initiatives

Collaborate with platform and product teams to define best practices for continuous integration, deployment pipelines, and local development environments (e.g., Dev Containers).

Champion Software Engineering Standards

Help define and codify best practices and standards in the GovTech Developer Handbook, and partner with teams to support adoption and onboarding.

Drive Infrastructure and DevOps Patterns

Support initiatives around containerization, runtime hardening, developer environments, and observability tooling - making it easy for teams to do the right thing.

Enable and Uplift the Developer Community

• Continuously engage developers across GovTech to understand pain points and bottlenecks
• Facilitate feedback loops, conversations, and forums to uncover developer pain points
• Propagate and socialize good practices, gather insights, and drive solutions that reflect real-world developer needs

Collaborate and Mentor

Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand their needs, guide them in adopting shared tooling, and mentor engineers on engineering best practices.

Contribute to Strategic Engineering Initiatives

Help shape the technical direction and roadmap of how GovTech engineers build software - from first commit to production operations.

What we are looking for

You may be a great fit if

• You have strong backend software engineering experience in Node.js and/or Golang
• You’re passionate about improving developer workflows and building tools, libraries, and guidance that make engineering teams more productive
• You understand the full SDLC - from coding and testing to CI/CD, infrastructure, containers, monitoring, and operations
• You care about clean, secure, maintainable software, and are opinionated about good engineering practices
• You thrive on listening to developers, understanding their pain points, and working collaboratively to solve them
• You’re an effective communicator and facilitator, able to align different perspectives and rally developers around a shared standard or tool
• You value outcomes over output, and constantly seek to reduce toil and improve developer experience through automation and design
• You are collaborative, humble, and communicate well with engineers, product managers, and leadership
• You embrace open-source practices and are comfortable maintaining shared code used by many
• You model a “you build it, you own it” mindset, and take responsibility for the things you create

We’re Especially Excited By Senior Engineers Who

• Have built and scaled internal tooling or developer enablement platforms
• Understand software design, developer ergonomics, and DX principles
• Bring a platform engineering mindset to solving common pain points at scale
• Demonstrate breadth across software engineering, CI/CD, DevOps, and container runtimes
• Understand how to design maintainable systems and developer APIs
• Have contributed to open-source tools or actively engage in engineering communities
• Are skilled at facilitating conversations and aligning engineers across teams toward common practices
• Are excited to co-create standards that will be adopted across many teams
• Are excellent mentors and collaborators, helping uplift the engineering culture across GovTech

What we offer you

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech