Job Summary

•    A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
•    Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
•    Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, energy and enthusiasm

Key Responsibilities

Strategy*

• Developer for time critical and highly visible regulatory application to strategize and implement regulatory commitments as well as maintaining and improving Live projects stability.
• Must be a fast learner to gain domain expertise.
• Excellent communication and co-ordination skills.

Business*

• Understand business purpose of user stories and estimate development tasks to fulfil the story.  Work directly with product owners on technical stories and further define the details on how the story should be implemented

Processes*

• Optimize application code for maximum speed and scalability. Integrate software components and third-party codebase. Enforce Technical processes, standards and best practices to the team

Risk Management*

• Maintaining excellent relationships and communication with Global stakeholders, other IT teams, product and application owners, and vendors

Skills and Experience

• 0-2 years of experience in backend development with exposure to Java frameworks and microservices architecture concepts .
•  Basic understanding of REST API development principles and familiarity with SOAP concepts.
• Foundational knowledge of API integration concepts with willingness to learn integration with in-house applications and third-party vendor systems.
• Basic Knowledge of REACT, HTML and CSS.
• Participate in the full development lifecycle under guidance - contributing to discovery sessions, writing clean code, basic configuration, unit testing, documentation, and supporting deployment activities.
• Embrace Agile methodologies and actively participate in sprint ceremonies, demonstrate eagerness to learn new techniques and contribute to team productivity.
• Interest in financial services domain - willingness to learn banking concepts and regulations preferred.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including senior developers, integration teams, database administrators, and architects to understand system interactions.
• Knowledge of Oracle relational databases is an advantage.
• Continuous learning attitude with enthusiasm for staying updated with modern backend development practices and emerging technologies
•  Effective communication skills for participating in technical discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing sessions.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree (BE/BTech) and/or MBA from reputed university, preferably in Computer Science / Information Technology discipline
• A committed technologist to design solutions for complex problems. Hands-on with the team to code and test solutions.
• Good communication skills must have for this role.

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.