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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. \nAt 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. \nPlay 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! \nLearn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg. \n[What you will be working on] \nThe Government Technology Office’s Software Engineering Practice improves how software is built, delivered and maintained across GovTech and the Whole-of-Government.\nWe work with engineering leaders and teams to identify common challenges, establish shared practices and build the capabilities needed to put them into use. Our work spans engineering effectiveness, developer experience, AI, engineering maturity, hiring and people development.\nAs a Software Engineer in the Practice, you will combine hands-on engineering with work on the standards, processes and capabilities that support our engineering community. You will work with pillar leads to understand where teams need help, translate that understanding into practical improvements, and support their adoption across teams and agencies.\nYour work could include making the Engineering Maturity Framework actionable through tools like Backstage, bringing together data and developer research to guide improvements, or strengthening how we interview, assess and develop engineers. Software delivery will be a substantial part of the role, alongside shaping practices, engaging teams and helping them apply what we build.\nTurn shared engineering needs into practical capabilities. Work with pillar leads, engineering leaders and teams to understand recurring problems and develop solutions that can be used across the organisation.\nDevelop and apply engineering practices. Contribute to frameworks, assessment approaches and guidance. Use your engineering experience to make them clear, practical and relevant to how teams work.\nBuild tools that put practices into use. Design, build and operate products, integrations and automation that make shared practices easier to adopt. This could include Backstage features, maturity assessments, measurement tools or interview management workflows.\nSupport engineering effectiveness. Work with measurement and platform colleagues to connect existing data, research and tooling. Help teams understand their constraints and identify useful improvements.\nContribute to engineering people development. Support work on role expectations, hiring, interviewer endorsement and development pathways, in partnership with other teams.\nHelp teams adopt and improve shared capabilities. Trial approaches with teams, explain how to use them, gather feedback and refine them. Assess success through their usefulness and adoption.\nAdvance engineering practice with AI. Help evaluate how AI tools and agents change engineering workflows, skills and assessment. Apply the findings to the Practice’s tools, guidance and development approaches.\nOwn the engineering quality of what you deliver. Take solutions through design, implementation, testing, rollout and ongoing operation, with appropriate attention to reliability, security and maintainability.\nContribute across the engineering community. Share lessons, demonstrate approaches and work with partner teams to align efforts and build on existing capabilities.\nYour focus may shift between pillars as priorities develop. You will have a defined area of responsibility while contributing to the Practice’s wider work.\n[What we are looking for] \nWe are looking for an experienced software engineer who wants to improve how engineering is practised across an organisation. You should enjoy both building software and working with people to improve the standards, tools and processes around it.\nYou should bring:\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and experience delivering and operating production systems.\nA record of improving engineering practices within your team or across teams, such as testing, delivery workflows, developer tooling, technical standards or onboarding.\nThe ability to turn broad goals or recurring problems into practical changes, working through ambiguity and delivering incrementally.\nHands-on capability across the stack, including building APIs, integrations and automation.\nSound judgement about when a problem needs software, clearer guidance, a process change or a combination of these.\nThe ability to explain technical ideas clearly, listen to different perspectives and help teams adopt a shared approach.\nAn interest in engineering effectiveness, developer experience and the development of engineering capability.\nA willingness to learn across the Practice’s areas of work and collaborate with technical and non-technical partners.\nAn interest in how AI is changing engineering work and the judgement to evaluate and apply it effectively.\nExperience in any of the following would be valuable:\nContributing to an engineering practice, technical community or organisation-wide improvement initiative.\nDeveloping engineering standards, maturity frameworks, assessment approaches or practical guidance.\nWorking with Backstage, software catalogues or other internal developer platforms.\nUsing engineering data or developer feedback to identify and evaluate improvements.\nBuilding tools that support engineering workflows, interviewing, learning or skills development.\nSupporting the adoption of shared tools and practices across multiple teams.\nConducting engineering interviews, mentoring engineers or contributing to role frameworks and development programmes.\nApplying AI to engineering workflows and sharing evidence of what works.\nYou do not need prior experience across every pillar. 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