Senior Software Engineer, Armoury

Who We Are

Open 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.

Want a deeper sense of how we think? Hear our Director share his perspective on rebuilding government from the ground up.

The Armoury Team

You will join Armoury, a platform that helps frontline officers (firefighters, paramedics, and others) keep mission-critical equipment ready for emergencies. For the full story and public impact, see our report card.

Armoury is now the foundation for a broader safety and readiness platform that other public agencies, including hospitals, are beginning to adopt. The team's next chapter is making Armoury's features work for other organisations too, so any agency can use it to keep their people, equipment, and operations ready when it matters most.

Why This Role Matters

Armoury is already trusted by frontline officers in every Singapore fire station, with plans for further expansion. See the live impact numbers on our report card.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own production reliability, harden delivery pipelines, and help shape how the platform scales into its next generation.

About the Role

You will own real parts of how Armoury's next chapter gets built, from architecture to what ships, not a backlog handed to you.

You will work with a lean and experienced team that ships fast and stays close to the people who use what we build. Officers in stations, commanders at headquarters, and the teams rethinking how readiness should work across government are all one conversation away.

What You Will Do

Run Production That Matters

• Be part of the team that owns Armoury end-to-end in production: reliability, observability, incident response, on-call. The system runs 24/7 because emergencies don't wait.
• Harden CI/CD on GitHub Actions and help move the platform toward Infrastructure as Code.

Ship Features Independently

• Take a problem statement and drive it to production, from scoping through rollout.
• Shape what gets built: spot the work that's worth doing, ship it cleanly.

Shape the Next Chapter

• Extend Armoury's public-good impact across the public sector: evolve the platform so any Singapore government agency can adopt it for their own operations.
• Work directly with frontline users and agency stakeholders, turning real needs into product decisions.

What We're Looking For

Production Ownership and End-to-End SDLC

• You've run systems in production. Real uptime, real users, real 2am pages. You know what production actually costs.
• Fluent with CI/CD (GitHub Actions or equivalent). Boring, predictable deploys are a feature to you, not an afterthought.
• You tighten guardrails, change controls, and rollback plans as the system's blast radius shifts. Following them is the baseline.
• Your reviews catch design risks others miss, and you spot over-engineering and under-engineering before they ship.
• Quality doesn't slip when delivery gets tight.

Own Systems That Real People Depend On

• Run a live, life-critical platform that frontline officers count on every day. Shape how we keep it reliable, end-to-end.
• Drive projects from problem to production with real autonomy: scope, build, ship, iterate.

Sharpen Your Craft

• Make technical calls grounded in first principles. Choose durable solutions; reach for novelty when it earns its keep.
• Leave code, ops, and reviews better than you found them, and help teammates do the same.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, with CI/CD on GitHub Actions.

Projects OGP has worked on include:

ScamShield — iOS and Android mobile apps, enhanced in August 2024, help users check and report suspicious communications. The apps automatically filter known scams using an AI-powered machine learning classifier. An Admin Dashboard also allows police to verify reported scams.

ParkingSG — A mobile app alternative to parking coupons. It lets users pay, extend, and refund their parking sessions just using their phones.

RedeemSG — Helps the Singapore Government to create, send and track redemptions of digital vouchers easily.

COVID-19 Vaccination — A suite of systems built to enable Singapore's national vaccination campaign for COVID-19. This includes informational sites, appointment booking systems, and records management systems.

data.gov.sg — An open repository of all the Singapore Government's public data. It helps people understand the data using visualizations and articles, and provides real-time APIs for developers to use.

Isomer — Provides government agencies with an easy-to-deploy static website building and hosting service to create usable, secure and faster informational websites quickly.

FormSG — A form builder tool for agencies to self-service and create online forms that capture classified data, with the goal of replacing paper forms.

PaySG — Was developed to enable digital payments for government services, and was initially used for payments for COVID-19 swab tests and Stay-Home Notices for incoming travellers to Singapore.

An overview of other OGP products can be found on our website https://open.gov.sg

Apply Now

If you want to build technology that frontline officers rely on in emergencies, and help shape the next generation of operational-readiness infrastructure across the public sector, we'd love to meet you.