Senior Software Engineer, Elections Department (ELD)

About the role

GovTech is the lead agency behind Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As a Senior Software Engineer at the Elections Department (ELD), you will act as a technical lead in one of its squads, working on products that help Singaporeans take part in elections. You will modernise and enhance critical electoral systems so that elections remain secure, efficient and transparent.

Key responsibilities

• Take an active role in delivering product and engineering goals.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable and reusable software systems.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers through engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager on high-priority initiatives.
• Establish practices and tools that encourage a strong engineering culture.
• Strengthen solution design, code and design reviews, and quality, reliability, security and DevOps practices.
• Identify and manage cross-team technical dependencies and proactively reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the squad, updating it regularly.

Required profile

• Experience building reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Strong sense of being a technical leader, including leading technical decisions, code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Passion for engineering excellence and for working for public good.
• Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.

Required skills

• Modern full-stack web technologies; front-end with Next.js, React.js, Angular or TypeScript and backend with .NET or Node.js/TypeScript preferred.
• Cloud infrastructure and DevOps; AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architecture or container orchestration are advantageous.

What we offer

• A total rewards package with leave benefits and employee wellness programs.
• Flexible work arrangements, subject to the job role.