The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. 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.
At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions.
GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do.
Play 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!
Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
About us – National Digital Identity (NDI)
Imagine citizens having a common and secure digital identity that will make their lives so much easier, and open doors to a plethora of services for them - allowing citizens to do everything from accessing health prescriptions, completing government transactions to starting a bank account through their smartphone.
If you are inspired by this vision, we invite you to join our National Digital Identity (NDI) team. You will collaborate with a team of highly motivated peers to develop and deploy the next generation National Digital Identity platform that will transform the lives of citizens by enabling secure and seamless delivery of personalized online digital experiences.
The Singpass team builds Singapore’s digital identity system. This includes various personal authentication protocols, data sharing tools, and corporate identity systems through Corppass. The team’s mission is to provide reliable digital identity infrastructure that streamlines transactions, enables businesses, and protects against fraud.
What you will be working on:
- Set the technical vision for Singpass and its integrations
- Design the engineering systems and practices for Singpass to run reliably
- Making technical contributions, and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through end-to-end software development and promoting team engagement and motivation.
- Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximise NDI’s impact on the public good.
- Establishing robust engineering practices and tools in order to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Sharing your expertise and mentoring other engineers.
- Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.
What we are looking for:
- Experience working on reasonably large software engineering projects / high-availability production systems which has had to operate at scale.
- Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; substantial experience in modern front-end engineering on React.js and TypeScript stack is greatly preferred.
- Build deep expertise in digital identity, cryptography, and security protocols
- Have a strong sense of what it means to be a senior/lead engineer, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
- Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company as we believe that diversity is meaningful to innovation. Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. This includes generous leave benefits to meet your work-life needs. We trust that you will get the job done wherever you are, and whatever works best for you – so work from home or take a break to exercise if you need to*.
We also believe it’s important for you to keep honing your craft in the constantly-evolving tech landscape, so we provide and support a plethora of in-house and external learning and development opportunities all year round.
*Subject to the nature of your job role that might require you to be onsite during fixed hours
