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.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical direction and engineering execution for one (or more) teams. You will drive the design, implementation, and delivery of product capabilities owned by your team, while building a healthy engineering system that ships reliably and improves over time.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Defining your team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organisation's overall vision and goals.
- Partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional counterparts (e.g., Product, Design, QA, Security) to prioritise and manage roadmaps, delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
- Creating and maintaining a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the team; updating it regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
- Staying close to technical details through architecture reviews, design discussions, and code/review practices, bringing sound technical judgment to guide trade-offs.
- Ensuring the team ships high-quality software predictably and sustainably; improving delivery flow, developer experience DevX, and engineering effectiveness.
- Building reliability and security into the team's approach: observability, incident response, postmortems, and preventative improvements.
- Coaching and developing engineers through 11s, feedback, performance conversations, and career growth planning.
- Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires, and contributing to onboarding.
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
- Strong technical leadership and judgment beyond hands-on implementation: guiding architecture, raising engineering standards, and enabling teams to make good decisions.
- Proven people leadership experience: coaching engineers, giving actionable feedback, and helping individuals and teams grow.
- Strong sense of engineering excellence and craftsmanship; you understand software engineering is a team sport.
- Experience with modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
- Ability to guide a team to achieve important goal together, communicate trade-offs clearly, and collaborate well across functions.
- Passion towards working for public good.
GovTech offers 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. We offer employee benefits 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.