{"id":3516859,"url":"https://alion.io/job/open-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments","title":"Senior/Lead Software Engineer (Technical Lead Manager), Applied Experiments","company":{"id":273738,"name":"Open Government Products","domain":"open.gov.sg","url":"https://alion.io/company/open-5","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Recruitee","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":43,"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":67000,"max_usd":125000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":31},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T06:43:24Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T12:52:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Who We Are\nOpen Government Products (OGP) operates like a startup within the government. We are a fast-paced, dynamic team of engineers, designers, and product managers dedicated to public good. We autonomously identify opportunities to solve public problems using tech, rapidly prototype, and launch solutions, from citizen apps to automating public agency operations. Embracing an open-sourced and flat hierarchy, we cut through bureaucracy to focus on real-world, user-centric innovations that drive change.\nAs part of the Applied Experiments Division (AED) within OGP, we take on the most ambiguous open problems and run experiments to help inform better decisions in government. Some past examples like ERP X, Armoury, Maps, Pair and ParkingSG are just a few examples of how we've made a difference in the lives of citizens. You can learn more about our products on our website.\nThe Team\nWe're hiring for the AI Native team. Our mandate: rethink how product development happens across OGP, with AI at the centre of how people work.\nWe work with product teams and with OGP's central tooling team. We build shared AI tooling on top of existing infrastructure and help product teams adopt it across how they code, plan, and operate. Our success metric: teams across OGP move faster because of how they use AI in their workflow.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a Senior/Lead Software Engineer to lead 1-2 engineers in AED as a Technical Lead Manager. Rather than owning one long-lived product, your team will run a portfolio of experiments starting new ones, running several in parallel, and handing them over, merging or winding them down once they've answered the questions they set out to test.\nAs a Technical Lead Manager, you set technical direction across the portfolio, grow the engineering team and stay hands-on where needed. You balance speed, reuse and stage-appropriate standards while safeguarding data, security and incident response. You hire, coach and support engineers’ growth, own how the team spends its time, and work with PMs, designers, policy officers and government partners to turn unclear problems into meaningful experiments that inform decisions.\nWhat you'll do\nSet technical direction for the team's experiments. Set architecture and engineering standards for each experiment, balancing speed with reliability.\n\nLead hands-on. Take on the hardest or riskiest parts of an experiment yourself when that helps, review the team's work, and keep live experiments safe, reliable and observable.\n\nLead and grow engineers. Hire, onboard and coach engineers, with clear expectations, regular feedback, and fair performance and career conversations.\n\nShape what the team works on. Work with PMs, designers and policy officers to define experiments, set success and stop criteria, and focus engineering effort where it adds value.\n\nOwn the follow-through. Help the team learn from each experiment, recommend next steps, and manage handovers or wind-downs responsibly.\n\nRepresent engineering. Communicate technical options, risks and trade-offs clearly to partners and leadership, and share good practices across AED.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nStrong, hands-on engineering across the stack. Experience building and running production systems, with sound judgement on speed, simplicity and stage-appropriate quality.\n\nTechnical leadership. You've led technical direction, made tough architecture and standards decisions, and taken responsibility for the outcomes.\n\nPeople leadership. You've coached and grown engineers and been involved in hiring. Formal management experience is welcome but not required.\n\nOwnership and initiative in ambiguity. You take responsibility for a problem area, not just a task, and help your team find the way forward without waiting for top-down direction.\n\nProblem-first, not solution-first. You help your team change course based on evidence and see value in ruling out approaches that don't work.\n\nCollaboration and communication. You work closely with PMs, designers and policy officers, and explain complex technical ideas in simple, actionable terms to non-technical audiences.\n\nExperience using AI effectively. You've used AI in software delivery, understand its limits, and set guardrails to keep your team accountable for quality.\n\nA genuine drive to do public good. You care about outcomes for citizens and public officers, and you're accountable for the people and resources invested in each experiment.\n\nWhat matters less than you'd expect\nYears of experience or a management title. We care about what you've owned, the people you've grown and the decisions you made. Time served isn't an accurate proxy for any of that.\n\nRelated degree or formal credentials. CS degrees, ML backgrounds and policy qualifications are all welcome, none required.\n\nSpecific language, framework or stack. Fundamentals and the ability to learn fast matter more.\n\nGovernment or policy experience. We'll teach you how decisions move through government, but we can't teach you to take initiative.\n\nHaving led one long-lived product. Experience running production systems helps, but the goal here is a portfolio of well-answered questions, not one polished product.\n\nInterested in the role? We'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join us at OGP!\nWorking at OGP\nOwnership and Autonomy - Beyond technical tasks, this means having autonomy to voice opinions and suggest future directions. Building what you believe in drives the creation of great solutions.\nRapid Prototyping - We prioritize testing ideas over debating them, allowing us to identify problems quickly and convey possibilities to others. This fail-fast approach accelerates innovation.\nFlexibility - We provide flexible work arrangements based on what works best for our team and its members, fostering a productive and supportive environment.\nContinuous Learning - Drive professional growth by exploring new architectures, frameworks, and technologies. With dedicated yearly learning months and hackathons, continuous learning is essential as we tackle innovative ideas and challenges.\nMission-Driven - Our work is dedicated to the public good, aiming to improve the lives of Singapore citizens. We focus on creating impactful solutions that enhance the community and the place we call home.\nProducts we’ve built include:\nScamShield - iOS and Android mobile apps that help users check and report suspicious communications. The apps automatically filter known scams using an AI-powered machine learning classifier, while an Admin Dashboard allows police to verify reported scams.\n\nParkingSG - A mobile app alternative to parking coupons that lets users pay for, extend and refund their parking sessions using their phones.\n\nRedeemSG - Helps the Singapore Government create, send and track redemptions of digital vouchers easily.\n\ndata.gov.sg - An open repository of the Singapore Government's public data. It helps people understand data through visualisations and articles and provides real-time APIs for developers.\n\nIsomer - Provides government agencies with an easy-to-deploy website building and hosting service to create usable, secure and fast informational websites.\n\nFormSG - A form builder that enables government agencies to self-service and create online forms that capture classified data, with the goal of replacing paper forms.\n\nPaySG - Enables digital payments for government services and was initially developed for payments related to COVID-19 swab tests and Stay-Home Notices for incoming travellers.\n\nAn overview of other OGP products can be found on our website.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7581,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T10:41:58Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":43,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/open-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/open-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T13:57:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":19478,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":273738},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=273738"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fopen-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fopen-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fopen-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/open-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fopen-government-products-seniorlead-software-engineer-technical-lead-manager-applied-experiments"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3516859}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"open.gov.sg","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3516859},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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