Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and technically strong developers for the initiatives within our Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Centre of Excellence. This role involves end-to-end development of innovative, high-impact projects involving blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, and enterprise-grade integrations. The ideal candidate will bring a balance of deep technical expertise skills to drive product delivery across emerging technologies and regulated environments.

The Full Stack Developer is responsible for developing the User interface of Desktop and Mobile applications and the backend systems as well. We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a high performing team to roll out new Digital Solutions for SCB.

The candidate must be a skilled professional who has E2E software development experience with a desire to work on an agile, dynamic and flat organisational structure.  Must have hands-on experience in building applications to manage client journey and experience.  They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code. They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other’s designs and code. They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group. They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production. 

Key Responsibilities

•    Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java 17 and Spring Boot.
•    Responsible for developing application and system solutions with good understanding in React and
•    other advanced JavaScript Frameworks
•    Work with CSS 3 Frameworks Compass/SASS, HTML5 AND JSON
•    Knowledge of UI frameworks Semantic UI, Semantic React UI, Bootstrap, Material Design
•    Implement microservices architecture to ensure scalability and maintainability.
•    Develop REST and SOAP APIs.
•    Integrate with databases using ORM frameworks and ensure efficient DB connectivity.
•    Develop and maintain messaging services using JMS and Solace.
•    Manage project dependencies and build processes using Maven.
•    Collaborate with the team using Git for version control.
•    Utilize Azure DevOps (ADO) for CI/CD pipelines and project management.
•    Write and maintain unit tests using JUnit.
•    Write Extensive BDD Test Cases using Maven/Gherkins
•    Conduct integration testing to ensure seamless interaction between components.
•    Ensure adherence and continuous improvement of Agile practices, coaching and teaching new
•    techniques to the team as needed to achieve optimum productivity.
•    Engage and collaborate with a wide group of technology teams from upstream TP systems, 
•    System Integration: Ability to collaborate across platform, security, network, and compliance teams to ensure seamless integration of DLT services into enterprise ecosystems.
•    Cloud & Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure networking, access controls, high-availability setups, and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

Business 
•    Build & maintain blockchain protocols, smart contracts, tokenization modules and consensus algorithms.
•    Ensure security, integrity, and scalability of blockchain solutions.
•    Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
•    Troubleshoot and resolve issues in blockchain applications and systems.
•    Suggest blockchain development processes and best practices. 
•    Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.

Processes 
•    Solution Governance: Experience working with solution architects and security domain experts to design and implement systems compliant with internal controls, frameworks, and best practices.
•    Standards & Methodologies: Proficiency in SDLC practices, Agile delivery, Git-based version control, issue tracking systems, and technical documentation

People & Talen
•    Leadership: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams (Dev, DevOps, QA) through the full delivery lifecycle from ideation to implementation.
•    Stakeholder Management: Comfortable interacting with business users, compliance, security, and external partners, aligning technical goals with business outcomes.
•    Problem Solving: Adept at navigating ambiguity and delivering creative, robust solutions under tight deadlines and evolving requirements.
•    Communication: Clear and persuasive communicator able to translate complex technical ideas into actionable insights for diverse audiences.
•    Results-Driven: Strong track record of meeting delivery milestones while upholding code quality and security standards.
•    Ability to coach and support junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Other Responsibilities

Risk Management
•    The ability to interpret and align all responsible applications under the Groups technology and security framework, identify key issues based and put in place appropriate controls and measure. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy complaint conduct is the norm

Governance 
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, around infrastructure hosting and data management for client facing applications, and the regulatory requirements and expectations for the Bank.  Ensure application design considerations are taken based on this.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy complaint conduct is the norm.

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Qualifications

•    Masters or engineering background 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java 17 and Spring Boot.
•    Responsible for developing application and system solutions with good understanding in React and
•    other advanced JavaScript Frameworks
•    Work with CSS 3 Frameworks Compass/SASS, HTML5 AND JSON
•    Knowledge of UI frameworks Semantic UI, Semantic React UI, Bootstrap, Material Design
•    Implement microservices architecture to ensure scalability and maintainability.
•    Develop REST and SOAP APIs.
•    Integrate with databases using ORM frameworks and ensure efficient DB connectivity.
•    Develop and maintain messaging services using JMS and Solace.
•    Manage project dependencies and build processes using Maven.
•    Collaborate with the team using Git for version control.
•    Utilize Azure DevOps (ADO) for CI/CD pipelines and project management.
•    Write and maintain unit tests using JUnit.
•    Write Extensive BDD Test Cases using Maven/Gherkins
•    Conduct integration testing to ensure seamless interaction between components.
•    Ensure adherence and continuous improvement of Agile practices, coaching and teaching new
•    techniques to the team as needed to achieve optimum productivity.
•    Engage and collaborate with a wide group of technology teams from upstream TP systems, 
•    integration, modeling team, database administrators, messaging teams, and architecture. 

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.