Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary
A public sector technology team in Singapore is hiring a senior engineer to lead delivery on mission-critical digital products. You will work within an Agile squad alongside cross-functional team members like QA, DevOps, product, and design. The role requires building scalable features, owning technical direction, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Build secure, scalable features across front-end, backend, and APIs
- Own technical direction, design decisions, and estimation
- Enforce quality standards through code reviews and testing strategies
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and apply DevSecOps practices
- Mentor engineers and manage delivery risks
Required Skills
- 6+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years leading a team or project
- Proficiency in Java, C#, or TypeScript
- Experience with relational databases
- Knowledge of microservices, CI/CD, and DevOps
Job Details
The opportunity
A public sector technology team in Singapore is hiring a senior engineer to lead delivery on mission-critical digital products. You'll report into the architecture group and work inside a cross-functional Agile squad alongside QA, DevOps, product, and design.
What you'll do
- Build and ship secure, well-tested, scalable features — front-end, backend services, and APIs — on an established stack
- Own the technical direction of your workstream: design decisions, trade-offs, benchmarking, and estimation
- Set and enforce the quality bar through code reviews and a testing strategy spanning unit, integration, e2e, performance, and reliability
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, and deployment baked in
- Apply DevSecOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices as standard
- Mentor engineers, unblock the team, and flag delivery risks early with options in hand
What we're looking for
- 6+ years building software hands-on, with 3+ years leading a team, module, or project
- A track record of technical leadership in Agile/Scrum delivery
- Depth in at least one of: Java, C#, or TypeScript (Angular / React / Next.js)
- Comfortable with a relational database — PostgreSQL, MSSQL, or Oracle
- Proficient in microservices, RESTful APIs, secure coding, and modern DevOps
- Hands-on with CI/CD, automated testing, and Git-based workflows
- Container experience (Docker / Kubernetes); cloud, IaC, and DevSecOps exposure is a plus
- Degree in Computing / IT / Software Engineering, or equivalent depth in architecture and systems design (Degree can be waived for the right depth of hands-on architecture experience)