Principal / Lead Software Engineer, Core Engineering Products

Description and Requirements

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.

At Core Engineering Products (CEP), we focus on supporting Whole-of-Government agencies and implementing partners to build and operate reliable, secure, usable, and cost-effective digital products efficiently with the engineering tools in our Engineering Productivity Programme (EPP), Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure Programme (DEDIP).

Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) is a key platform within Singapore Government Technology Stacks to allow government agencies to create high quality and reliable government services for citizens using commercial cloud services. GCC Engineering Team develops the required platform automations, processes, toolchain and policies/best practices to enable government agencies to develop, deploy and operate government services on the cloud in an agile yet secure manner.

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated peers, we welcome you to join GCC.

What you will be doing:

1. Participate in an in-house engineering squad for engineering excellence in design, development and operational of the Singapore Government Commercial Cloud Platform.
2. Practice and lead other development communities to develop and deploy on Government Commercial Cloud.
3. Opportunities to learn and implement large scale automation with cloud landing zone across multiple Cloud Service Providers in Government Context.
4. Responsible to develop and maintain the platform used by multiple government agencies.
5. Be the guiding subject matter of expert for DevOps methodologies, contribute to Automation, Availability, Scalability and Resiliency to the team and the development communities within government.
6. This role has focus on development of API, backend automation in NodeJS/Python, code deployment security with various CICD toolchain such as Gitlab, Atlassian, Terraform.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in API/backend development and integration using NodeJS, Python.
• Understand about cloud infrastructure deployment and automation.
• Lead a small team of software engineers before, doesn’t mind hands-on.
• Practitioner in agile development, secure pipelines and deployment automation.
• Understand and willing to learn about Infrastructure as Code, Policies as Code and Git.
• Familiar with cloud services such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Appreciate or willing to learn large-scaled distributed systems and their challenges.
• Familiar with code security and opensource tools in relevant domains.
• Good to have - practiced Terraform and Bash scripting too.
• Good to have – understand about Cloud Landing Zone such as Control Tower, Terraform Landing Zone, Microsoft Azure CAF.
• Good to have - practiced Site Reliability Engineering principle and familiar with application monitoring tools.
• Strong understanding and appreciation of positive team culture. Care about growing and coaching staff.
• Passion for automation for large scalable systems ensuring they are highly secured, resilient and highly available.
• Have strong communication skills and belief in what you are doing.
• Extremely strong team-player, primary focus is on leveraging your experiences to help the team succeed.
• Strong contributor and hands-on in all your past experiences.
• Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
• Advocate for the best Engineering and DevOps principles.

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 programmes.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech.