Senior Software Engineer (GovTech)
Senior Software Engineer (GovTech)
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Software Engineer (Senior or Staff) - Govtech (Applications - digital economy programs)
Digital transformation within the public sector is at the heart of what GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore) does. We harness the best info-communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore (about Govtech).
We are programs oriented towards the digital economy part of applications within Govtech.
We run like a modern product company solving important underserved problems in the public sector. Some of the problem spaces we are working on include healthcare workforce transformation and AI-driven workplace productivity solutions.
We are looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer.
What you will be working on:
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer you will play the role of a technical lead in one of our squads.
You will play a pivotal role in leading one of our squads. Additionally you will drive the strategic design implementation and delivery of multiple products owned by your squad. Your responsibilities will include:
- Taking a leadership role in team delivery of product and engineering goals
- Delivering high-quality maintainable and reusable software systems.
- Making significant technical contributions and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.
- Influencing team direction towards the achievement of high-priority initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.
- Establishing practices and tools to foster a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
- Collaborating 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.
- Leading recruitment efforts 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 and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
- 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
