Software Engineer, Elections Department

About the role

GovTech, the lead agency behind Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives, is hiring an experienced Software Engineer for the Elections Department. The role centres on designing, developing and operating scalable cloud platforms on AWS, delivering production-ready software across multiple components while applying Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability and DevSecOps best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver features and proofs of concept spanning two to three areas of the team, making trade-offs between performance, security and maintainability
• Write and review code with long-term maintainability in mind, and expand unit and integration test coverage
• Own the team's CI/CD processes and deployment pipelines, and address technical debt in your domain
• Follow up shipped work by checking metrics, error rates and post-deployment issues, and take part in incident triage
• Review AI-generated code for correctness, edge cases and security, and write clear specifications to improve AI assistance
• Work independently, mentor others, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders

Required profile

• At least 5 years of software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience
• Proven track record building scalable cloud platforms or shared infrastructure
• Experience driving cross-team engineering standards or platform adoption
• Bonus: prior experience on Government projects on GCC

Required skills

• AWS (key), Azure or Google Cloud
• Terraform and Docker
• CI/CD systems, observability stacks and SRE practices
• Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript and modern development practices