Software / DevOps Engineer

Software / DevOps Engineer — Statutory Board

Industry:

Public Sector / Government

Job Type:

Permanent

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid

About the Role:

Join GovTech's Government Digital Transformation (GDT) team, forward-deployed to MSF — Singapore's lead ministry for social and family policies. You'll build, modernize and operate digital services that directly impact vulnerable individuals, families and communities.

We are hiring across:

Software Engineering (SWE) ,

Quality Engineering (QA)

and

DevOps / Platform Engineering . Depending on the team, you may specialize in one area or work across the full engineering lifecycle.

You'll work on initiatives such as Case Central, ComLink+, the Social Service Coordination Centre and Early Childhood programs — in an environment that spans greenfield platforms and brownfield modernization.

What You'll Do:

Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs, frontend applications and data pipelines

Develop and automate tests, CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure

Work with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCC), containers and IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu)

Integrate systems across government agencies, schools, healthcare and social-service partners

Improve observability, security controls and operational reliability

Modernize legacy applications (Java, Kotlin, platform-based systems)

Create reusable engineering capabilities for adoption across MSF teams

What We're Looking For -

Mindset:

Takes ownership end-to-end: from requirements to production support

Thinks in trade-offs (speed, security, cost, maintainability)

Comfortable with ambiguity and pragmatic problem-solving

Strong communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Cares deeply about code quality, testing, observability and security

Technical Skills:

(you don't need all — strong fundamentals matter most):

Languages:

Java, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, C#

Frontend:

React / Next.js, Vue, Angular

Data & APIs:

REST, GraphQL, SQL/PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, ETL pipelines

DevOps / Cloud:

AWS, GCC, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD

QA:

Test automation, API testing, CI/CD integration, performance and security testing

Other:

Microservices, event-driven architectures, Git, code reviews

Nice-to-Have:

Salesforce, OutSystems, Appian, Pega, Microsoft Dynamics, Databricks

Platform modernisation or reusable framework experience

GCC, Singpass/Corppass, SGTS exposure

Government, regulated or sensitive-systems experience

Interview Process:

Discussion of past projects and your specific contributions

Coding / problem-solving and system design

Cloud, infrastructure and security considerations

Practical technical exercise for some roles (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure task)

For senior candidates: independent decision-making, legacy constraints, building reusable capabilities

We care more about

how you think

and

what you've built

than memorized answers.

Why Join Us:

Meaningful impact:

Build technology that supports Singapore's most vulnerable

Modern engineering:

Work with cloud-native tools while solving real-world constraints

Growth:

Exposure to full-stack, platform and cross-agency integration work

Culture:

Ownership, pragmatism and engineering quality over buzzwords

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender or age.

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