Senior Software Engineer – TradeNet (Public Sector)

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Total rewards package

Flexible work arrangements

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a senior software engineer for the TradeNet rebuild. You will design, build, and support critical government software systems, taking complex requirements from brief to production-ready state with testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

You will work on cloud deployments, containerisation, orchestration, and frontend work with ReactJS. The role emphasizes ownership, continuous learning, and delivering high-impact public IT solutions.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Around 8+ years of software engineering experience on large-scale systems.
• Strong fundamentals across full development lifecycle, testing, observability and security.
• Hands-on with Kotlin or Java and PostgreSQL.
• Experience deploying apps on cloud platforms; familiarity with containers and orchestration.
• Proven experience with ReactJS or similar frontend framework.
• Proactive ownership and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support software products underpinning TradeNet rebuild.
• Take complex problems from an ambiguous brief to production-ready state (testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response).
• Advocate for technical proposals using data and sound judgment; welcome feedback.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements to systems, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and translate trade requirements into resilient systems.

Skills

Kotlin/Java

ReactJS

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Cloud deployments

Containerisation (Docker)

Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Software design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a senior software engineer for the TradeNet rebuild. You will design, build, and support critical government software systems, taking complex requirements from brief to production-ready state with testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

You will work on cloud deployments, containerisation, orchestration, and frontend work with ReactJS. The role emphasizes ownership, continuous learning, and delivering high-impact public IT solutions.