Job Description

What the role is:
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. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!
Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
What you will be working on:
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.
We build and steward key initiatives that shape how GovTech engineers work every day such as:
The GovTech Developer CLI, a unified command-line experience for onboarding and day-to-day tasks
Starter Kits and Software Libraries to accelerate secure, consistent development
The GovTech Developer Handbook, a central source of truth for engineering practices and guidelines
We work across the full software development lifecycle - from local dev environments to production delivery - to drive engineering excellence, consistency, and velocity across public digital services. We also serve as practice enablers, helping to propagate best practices, gather community feedback, and champion a culture of engineering excellence across GovTech.
Our north star: Reduce the time it takes for an engineer to deliver value to production to under one hour.
We aim to first raise the bar within GovTech, and ultimately scale this impact across Whole-of-Government (WOG) engineering teams through common tooling, standards, and shared communities of practice.
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 (e.g., Dev Containers).
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 - making it easy for teams to do the right thing.
Enable and Uplift the Developer Community
Continuously engage developers across GovTech to understand pain points and bottlenecks
Facilitate feedback loops, conversations, and forums to uncover developer pain points
Propagate and socialize good practices, gather insights, and drive solutions that reflect real-world developer needs
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 - from first commit to production operations.
What we are looking for:
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

We're especially excited by senior engineers who:

• Have built and scaled internal tooling or developer enablement platforms
• Understand software design, developer ergonomics, and DX principles
• Bring a platform engineering mindset to solving common pain points at scale
• Demonstrate breadth across software engineering, CI/CD, DevOps, and container runtimes
• Understand how to design maintainable systems and developer APIs
• Have contributed to open-source tools or actively engage in engineering communities
• Are skilled at facilitating conversations and aligning engineers across teams toward common practices
• Are excited to co-create standards that will be adopted across many teams
• Are excellent mentors and collaborators, helping uplift the engineering culture across GovTech

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe it is key to innovation.
Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks.
We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust you to manage your time to deliver your best.
Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.
About Government Technology Agency:
The Government Technology Agency (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. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions. GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. Play a part in Singapore's vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today! Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.