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.
Giant Robots Labs is the experimental technology labs team within GovTech's Government Technology Office. We turn ambitious ideas into working products quickly, test them with real users, and operate promising products through prototype and limited-beta stages.
As a Product Engineer, you will own products end to end. You will take an ambiguous problem, understand what users actually need, decide what should be built, design how it should work, build the necessary software and technical capabilities, deploy it, and validate it with real users.
Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous government problems into useful products that people can test and use
- Work directly with users and stakeholders to understand workflows, constraints and underlying needs
- Decide what to build, reduce problems to sensible first versions, and iterate based on real-world usage and evidence
- Build complete products across frontend, backend, data, APIs, integrations, infrastructure and cloud deployment as required
- Make practical decisions about product experience, interaction design, accessibility and visual quality
- Design systems that are secure, observable, maintainable and appropriate for operation beyond a one-off demonstration
- Integrate with GovTech's existing products, platforms, identity systems, data infrastructure and shared capabilities where appropriate
- Build technical capabilities such as APIs, services, data pipelines, real-time systems, agent runtimes or reusable platforms when the product requires them
- Apply AI where it meaningfully improves the product, from integrating existing models and APIs to deeper model experimentation, adaptation and evaluation where necessary
- Select suitable models and techniques based on the task, available evidence, operational constraints, latency and cost
- Design evaluations, representative test cases, baselines and failure analyses for AI systems when model behaviour is important to product quality
- Investigate failures across software, infrastructure and AI components and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, reliability, security, quality and extensibility
- Design reusable and interoperable capabilities through APIs, structured data, events and agent-native tool interfaces
- Deploy and operate products through limited beta, including monitoring, user support, issue resolution, reliability, quality, latency, usage and cost management
- Prepare successful products for continued operation, integration into the wider GovTech ecosystem, or handover to another team
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and substantial experience building working software
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go or equivalent
- Experience taking substantial products, prototypes or technical systems from idea to working implementation
- Ability to work across multiple parts of a product stack, which may include frontend, backend, databases, APIs, infrastructure, integrations or deployment
- Good technical judgement and the ability to choose an appropriate level of engineering rigour for the stage of the product
- Ability to deploy, monitor, debug and operate software in a cloud or production-like environment
- Understanding of authentication, authorisation, secure data handling and production-aware engineering
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Fluency with agentic development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or equivalent tools
- A track record demonstrating substantial personal ownership, curiosity and high agency
Benefits
GovTech offers a total rewards approach, providing a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks, including leave benefits and employee wellness programs. We champion flexible work arrangements and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best.