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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 where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.     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.     [What you will be working on]   At Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI), we are always on the lookout for high performing individuals who share our aspiration of making Singapore a conducive environment for entrepreneurs and enterprises to tap its diverse opportunities. As an Engineering Manager / Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for technical direction and processes to grow the GoBusiness platform ( www.gobusiness.gov.sg ) – one of the key touchpoints for Government-to-Business (G2B) transaction. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of the products which make up the platform.  Your responsibilities will include:   Defining your team’s engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization’s overall vision and goals.  Staying on top of industry development, and highly well versed in how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained. Excellent knowledge of implementing systems using bespoke, COTS, or SaaS solutions across the enterprise. Experience with cloud technologies and IT transformation programs. Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.  Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed. Update the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.  Work regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed.  Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team.  Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.  Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.  Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.     [What we are looking for]   Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.  Right candidate must be technically hands on and experience in all parts of the technology stack: client side, back end, infrastructure, performance, data, and others. Worked on the full stack development and built end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems.  Very well versed in the software development using Agile, modular design, pair programming, software automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies, such as React, Angular, Spring Boot, Django. Knowledge of cloud technology (e.g. AWS) and Generative AI models is preferr