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.
We are the GTO – Software Engineering Practice within GovTech, dedicated to uplifting engineering standards, tools, and practices across the organization. Our mission is to reimagine how software is built, tested, shipped, and maintained - by empowering engineering teams with the tools, libraries, and guidance they need to succeed.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Reimagine Software Engineering team, you will:
- Shape the Developer Experience: Design, build, and maintain tools like the GovTech Developer CLI, starter kits, and common libraries that improve how engineers onboard, develop, and ship software.
- Build Foundational Libraries and Kits: Develop reusable Node.js and Golang libraries, templates, and patterns that enable teams to adopt secure-by-default and production-ready practices.
- Lead CI/CD and Automation Initiatives: Collaborate with platform and product teams to define best practices for continuous integration, deployment pipelines, and local development environments.
- Champion Software Engineering Standards: Help define and codify best practices and standards in the GovTech Developer Handbook, and partner with teams to support adoption and onboarding.
- Drive Infrastructure and DevOps Patterns: Support initiatives around containerization, runtime hardening, developer environments, and observability tooling.
- Enable and Uplift the Developer Community: Continuously engage developers across GovTech to understand pain points and bottlenecks.
- Collaborate and Mentor: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand their needs, guide them in adopting shared tooling, and mentor engineers on engineering best practices.
- Contribute to Strategic Engineering Initiatives: Help shape the technical direction and roadmap of how GovTech engineers build software.
You may be a great fit if:
- You have strong backend software engineering experience in Node.js and/or Golang.
- You're passionate about improving developer workflows and building tools, libraries, and guidance that make engineering teams more productive.
- You understand the full SDLC - from coding and testing to CI/CD, infrastructure, containers, monitoring, and operations.
- You care about clean, secure, maintainable software, and are opinionated about good engineering practices.
- You thrive on listening to developers, understanding their pain points, and working collaboratively to solve them.
- You're an effective communicator and facilitator, able to align different perspectives and rally developers around a shared standard or tool.
- You value outcomes over output, and constantly seek to reduce toil and improve developer experience through automation and design.
- You are collaborative, humble, and communicate well with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
- You embrace open-source practices and are comfortable maintaining shared code used by many.
- You model a 'you build it, you own it' mindset, and take responsibility for the things you create.
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.