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 a Staff Software Engineer in the Transaction Platforms Programme (TPP), you will play a key technical leadership role in shaping and building GovTech's workflow automation platform product. The platform product enables government agencies to automate workflows, orchestrate agents, define business rules, and integrate with Whole-of-Government tools.
You will work closely with Product to understand users and the market, evaluate approaches and trade-offs, prototype ideas, and translate these insights into technical product direction. You will provide technical leadership to the team while remaining hands-on,designing systems, writing and reviewing code, establishing engineering practices, and solving difficult problems around scalability, performance, resilience, and distributed systems.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Substantial hands-on experience in workflow automation, orchestration, integration platforms, data infrastructure, or closely related product domains.
- A strong track record of contributing to product direction, not only technical implementation.
- Strong system design and architecture skills, including experience designing complex systems comprising multiple services and components.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and practical experience solving problems involving scalability, performance, resilience, reliability, and failure handling.
- Strong technical judgement and the ability to reason through unfamiliar or ambiguous problems, identify the important trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and arrive at pragmatic decisions.
- Experience leading technical direction and execution while remaining hands-on with software development.
- A track record of raising engineering quality through technical practices, architecture, design and code reviews, mentoring, and improving how teams deliver software.
- The ability to work effectively across Engineering and Product, connecting user and product needs with technical possibilities and constraints.
- Experience or strong familiarity with AI-native and agentic systems, and the ability to reason about how these capabilities should influence product and system architecture.
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 a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks, including leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.