Senior Software Engineer, Singapore Exams & Assessment Board (SEAB)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development opportunities

Wellness programs

Leave benefits

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring a senior software engineer to join the team supporting national exams ecosystem. You will design and build secure, scalable Java applications, leveraging Spring Boot/Spring Cloud and cloud services.

You will work on event-driven architectures with Kafka, and ensure robust data integrity and performance. Join a mission-driven environment delivering government digital services with modern tooling like AWS/GCP/Azure, Liquibase/Flyway, Redis, and Elasticsearch.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in Java 17+ with strong OOP, concurrency, and performance tuning fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that serve as effective context for junior engineers and AI-tools

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Spring Security

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

JWT

Relational DBs

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Liquibase

Flyway

Apache Kafka

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Microservices

Tools

Liquibase

Flyway

Redis

Elasticsearch

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]

The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board designs and administers national examinations - PSLE, GCE N/O/A-Levels, and more, that shape the educational journey of hundreds of thousands of students every year.
Trust, integrity, and precision are not aspirational values here; they are operational requirements.
The vision is to build a unified and adaptive digital ecosystem that seamlessly connects exam administration, electronic examinations and marking - enabling SEAB to leverage technology and innovation to deliver trusted, future-ready assessments with greater operational efficiency, resilience and smoother user experiences to meet Singapore's evolving assessment needs.

• Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that serve as effective context for junior engineers and AI-tools
• Design and deliver features that span services or components, considering modularity, scalability, and resiliency
• Incorporate security, compliance, and performance as design constraints from the outset
• Author technical design documents for moderately complex features and conduct architecture reviews, providing actionable feedback
• Lead incident triage and debugging for production issues, drive post-incident reviews with concrete root cause analysis and preventive actions

[What we are looking for]

Requirements

• Deep experience in Java 17+ with strong OOP, concurrency, and performance tuning fundamentals
• Deep experience with Spring related technologies Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Cloud / Spring Security (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication flows, JWT token management)
• Deep experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway
• Experience in design and operation of event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka
• Experience architecting applications in one or more cloud-native environments such as AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure
• Experience in microservice architecture at scale and related patterns e.g. circuit breakers, bulkheads, retry)

Good to Have

• Experience with Spring Batch or Quartz Scheduler, or equivalent job orchestration
• Experience with Redis for caching strategies, session management, distributed locking
• Experience in Elasticsearch for efficient querying / index designing
• Experience in Government / regulated industries - compliance-driven development, national identity system integrations

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