Job Description

[What the role is]

Summary


The Government Technology Agency (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. We also develop the Smart Nation infrastructure and applications, and facilitate collaboration with citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies.




Join us as we support Singapore's vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering.

[What you will be working on]

At National Environment Agency (NEA), we are always on the lookout for high performing individuals who share our aspiration of making Singapore one of the world's best living environments.


As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for Design , Development and maintenance of one or more software product s for different business domains e . g . licensing, inspection, reportin g .

Your responsibilities will include:

Taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals. Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems. Making technical contributions and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices. Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good) Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact. Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items. Working with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements. Helping with recruitment, particularly for senior hires.

[What we are looking for]

Experience working on reasonably large , high-availability software systems that have operated at scale. Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js /React.js and Node.js and Express.js on the backend is preferred. Knowledge of working with Relational Databases e.g. MS SQL, PostgreSQL and other cloud RDS Experience in Continuous Delivery approach as TDD, C ontinuous I ntegration, application security and software delivery excellence. Knowledge of Cloud platform e.g. AWS Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops. Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering. Passion towards working for public good with interest. * Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.