Graduate Development Engineer 

We are looking for highly talented and ambitious individuals to join our Graduate Programme as Development Engineers. During a 12-month learning journey, you’ll learn from leaders, get involved in key projects, and build the skills to propel your career forward, as part of our Technology and Operations team. 

About our Technology & Operations Team 

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.    

About the Graduate Programme – how you’ll learn and grow 

From day one, you’ll be immersed in real-world projects that matter. Our 12-month graduate programme is designed to accelerate your development and set you up for long-term success. You’ll benefit from: 

• Structured learning: Classroom training combined with hands-on experience
• Global collaboration: Work with diverse teams and experienced leaders
• Skill development: Build technical expertise and professional capabilities 
  
  

Your programme starts with an 8-week Technical Bootcamp that will equip you with the necessary skills and understanding of technology architecture, programming languages, and how banking solutions can be rapidly designed and delivered. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Design & development of robust banking software product development
• Delivery quality software which meets the business requirements
• Work in a truly agile environment, as part of scrum teams that are striving to solve customer challenges
• Participate in full software development lifecycle – requirements, design, implementation to deployment
• Take full ownership and responsibility for product development and delivery
• Handling problems reported from the field and coming up with quick resolution, workaround, recovery, and fixes.

Eligibility

We’re interested in people with diverse backgrounds. To be eligible for this role, you must be graduating from a Bachelor of Engineering course in 2026. You’ll also:

• Have some experience with programming algorithms, data structures, OOP concepts and frameworks, and database fundamentals.
• Have some knowledge and hands-on on experience in programming languages like C, C++, Java, Python, C#, or Dot Net.
• Be familiar with design patterns, Microservices, UI frameworks – Angular, React, AI MS Office, MI & visualisation tools like Canva.
• Have some knowledge of tools & frameworks like Selenium, JMETER, LoadRunner.
• Be analytical, a critical thinker & have strong problem-solving ability
• Have strong interpersonal and consultative skills.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us. 

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. 

Together we: 

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing. 

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers