Senior Software Engineer, Elections Department Singapore

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!  
 
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[What you will be working on]  

Join us in modernising the technology that supports Singapore's democratic processes! As a Senior Software Engineer at Elections Department (ELD), you will play the role of a technical lead in one of our squads and work on products that directly support Singaporeans to participate in elections. You'll be modernising and enhancing critical electoral systems that ensure secure, efficient, and transparent elections for our nation. 

This is a unique opportunity to: 

• Build technology solutions that serve millions of Singaporeans during elections 
• Work on high-impact projects that strengthen our electoral system 
• Collaborate with a dedicated team modernising Singapore's electoral infrastructure 
• Contribute to systems that must meet the highest standards of security, reliability, and public trust 

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 mentoring and guiding junior software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices. 
• Collaborating with Product Manager 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. 
• Strengthening how the team builds software through solution design works, constructive code/design reviews and enhancing quality, reliability, security and DevOps practices 
• Proactively identify and manage cross-team technical dependencies, coordinating with other engineering teams and stakeholders toto accelerate product outcomes. 
• Proactively refactor/reduce technical debt for long term maintainability. 
• Contributing 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. 

[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/Angular/TypeScript and backend development with .Net or Node.js/TypeScript is preferred. 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices; familiarity with AWS deployment, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architecture, or container orchestration would be advantageous. 
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly in leading technical decision-making, conducting code reviews, and driving architectural discussions 
• 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

What we offer you:   

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 programs.  

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. 
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