Job Summary

This role could be based in Malaysia and China. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based.
•    Standard Chartered is seeking a technically strong and solutions-oriented Backend engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable, high-performance Java/Spring boot micro service applications. You will play a key role in establishing Backend design principles, coding standards, and architectural patterns aligned with the company’s long-term vision.
•    In this role, you’ll architect resilient, API-first backend platforms using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, RESTful services, messaging, caching, and cloud-ready engineering patterns. You will drive technical decisions, troubleshoot complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers, and mentor teams on Agile delivery, secure coding, observability, and engineering excellence.
•    This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where you will collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to deliver forward-looking solutions that are modular, extensible, and aligned with evolving technology standards.

Key Responsibilities

•    Establish and enforce backend design principles, coding standards, API standards, and architectural patterns in line with the company's long-term technology vision. Mentor teams to ensure consistent adoption, maintainability, resilience, and alignment with business objectives.
•    Architect scalable, secure, and performance-first backend services from inception. Lead adoption of modern backend engineering practices including Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven integration, caching, database optimisation, and cloud-ready deployment patterns.
•    Having strong analytical skill & able to look at the problem from many angles. Able to narrow down the problem and resolving the issue in a short time.
•    Having a broad level view / expertise that can troubleshoot a problem from different infra layer in eco system. Having what it takes to advise other team as well as internal team in resolving the issue from end to end.
•    Lead a team, and able to groom the team on the technical/domain expertise.
•    Design and enforce robust backend architectural frameworks for microservices and distributed systems. Define a forward-looking architectural vision prioritising modularity, scalability, resilience, observability, performance, and extensibility to future-proof applications.
•    Capable of doing requirement analysis for complex requirement. Convert them into smaller user stories. Support the team for the whole application development & deployment & support. 
•    Champion on the SDLC processes & Agile. Driving the adoption & promote the processes in the team Owning the project releases.
•    Drive cross-team architecture decisions across backend, frontend, data, integration, and infrastructure layers. Resolve cross-squad dependencies involving APIs, shared services, batch processes, messaging, and platform components, while ensuring technical feasibility with product owners.
•    Overseeing requirement for the application level. Provide consultancy & mentoring & guidance to the team during the requirement understanding & agile processes.
•    Strong understanding on the security domain, can be a gatekeeper, Install the security checklist & promoting good security habit in programming.

Strategy
•    aligning backend architecture, API strategy, integration patterns, and platform engineering standards with long-term technology direction
•    improving scalability, performance, maintainability
•    supporting digital transformation and engineering standards
Business
•    delivering reliable, secure, and high-quality backend capabilities for business-critical applications
•    enabling faster feature delivery, stronger system resilience, and dependable API and service performance
•    supporting product, engineering, and business priorities through technical solutions
Processes
•    SDLC, Agile ceremonies, release management
•    requirement analysis and breaking work into user stories
•    code reviews, testing, CI/CD, deployment support
•    incident troubleshooting and production support
People & Talent
•    mentoring junior developers
•    sharing technical knowledge and best practices
•    supporting onboarding and peer learning
•    promoting strong engineering and security habits
Risk Management
•    secure coding and security checks
•    performance, resilience, and production stability
•    issue escalation and remediation
•    compliance with internal standards and controls

Governance 
•    following engineering standards, architecture guardrails, and change controls
•    ensuring proper documentation, approvals, and release discipline
•    complying with policy, audit, and internal control requirements
•    maintaining traceability across development and deployment lifecycle

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 the Malaysia / WRB Tech / WDPP /OTC to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)
Key stakeholders
•    Product Owner
•    Engineering Lead
•    Chapter Lead

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Malaysia / WRB Tech / OTC; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); Development, Squad Lead, Release champion

Skills and Experience

•    Java, Spring Boot, Microservices 
•    REST API Design and Service Integration
•    SQL, Database Design and Performance Optimisation
•    Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging and Batch Processing
•    CI/CD processes
•    UI/UX and Wireframe / Figma
•    Micro frontend and Performance Analysis
•    Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Test Strategy

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline; equivalent practical experience also accepted.
•    Minimum 8 years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
•    Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, SQL, relational databases, messaging, caching, and backend integration patterns.
•    Proven track record in building scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance backend services and distributed systems.
•    Hands-on experience with API design, service-to-service integration, event-driven architecture, batch processing, database optimisation, and observability practices.
•    Good understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing strategy, unit testing, end-to-end testing, and release support.
•    Strong capability in performance optimisation, troubleshooting, secure coding, and engineering best practices.
•    Experience in requirement analysis, user story breakdown, and collaboration with product, engineering, and architecture teams.
•    Ability to mentor peers and promote quality, security, performance, resilience, and backend engineering standards.

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.