Senior Software Engineer - Golang

Work Location – Novena
Mandatory Skill - Golang

Job Description
We require Full Stack Engineers who will join product teams to focus on building impactful digital solutions for government agencies. The successful candidates will collaborate within cross-functional product squads alongside Quality Engineers, User Experience Designers, and Product Owners to create and enhance software products that deliver meaningful outcomes for public sector users and citizens.

Key Responsibilities

- Partner with government agencies to build and iterate on high-quality digital products that solve real user needs.

- Collaborate within cross-functional product teams comprising Full Stack Engineers, User Experience Designers, Product Managers and Product Owners to deliver user-centred solutions throughout the product management lifecycle.

- Work with Product Manager sand Product Owners to understand business needs, refine product requirements, and translate them into scalable, user-centred technical solutions.

- Lead the architecture and system design for new features and external system integrations by analysing requirements and API/interface specifications, evaluating solution approaches and technical trade-offs, and producing scalable, secure, and maintainable solution designs to support product planning and delivery.

- Collaborate with Engineering Leads, Infrastructure teams, and other engineering teams to validate solution designs, resolve cross-system dependencies, technical risks, and achieve alignment on architectural decisions.

- Provide technical leadership throughout implementation by coordinating technical delivery, guiding solution implementation, resolving technical challenges, and driving the successful delivery of solutions in accordance with engineering standards.

- Develop clean, secure, maintainable, and well-tested code, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices and knowledge sharing across the teams.

- Champion the adoption of modern technologies, engineering practices, and tools to improve product quality, delivery efficiency, system maintainability and user experience.

- Contribute actively to Agile way of working and Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Reviews and Retrospectives to ensure continuous product and team improvement.

- Provide operational support by monitoring application health, responding to production incidents, and implementing preventive improvements to enhance system reliability and resilience.

Qualifications

- Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or related disciplines

- Strong software engineering and programming fundamentals

- Experience in architecture, system design, and application integration, to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions

- Experience leading the technical delivery of software solutions from solution design to implementation

- Experience in cloud-based application development and modern engineering practices, including Extreme Programming, Continuous Integration and Delivery

- Hands-on experience with modern technologies such as Go, .NET, TypeScript, Angular, and ReactJS

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively

- Effective collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional team environments

- Experience with SHIP-HATS, GitLab CI/CD pipelines is an advantage

- Experience working in Agile environments using Scrum and Kanban methodologies

- Have the desire to service the public through the use of technology