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Software Engineer (Senior or Staff) - Govtech (Applications - digital economy programs)

Digital transformation within the public sector is at the heart of what GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore) does. We harness the best info-communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore (about Govtech).
We are programs oriented towards the digital economy part of applications within Govtech.
We run like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector. Some of the problem spaces we are working on include healthcare, workforce transformation, and AI-driven workplace productivity solutions.

We are looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer.

What you will be working on:
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical lead in one of our squads.
You will play a pivotal role in leading one of our squads. Additionally, you will drive the strategic design, implementation, and delivery of multiple products owned by your squad. Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking a leadership role in team delivery of product and engineering goals
• Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems.
• Making significant technical contributions and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.
• Influencing team direction towards the achievement of high-priority initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.
• Establishing practices and tools to foster a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
• Collaborating with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Leading recruitment efforts, particularly for senior hires.

What we are looking for:

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
• Passion towards working for public good with interest.
• Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.