Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Full stack developer responsible for building applications, containers, APIs and microservices.  The role will require to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

About our Architecture, Technology Solutions App Development Team

Want to be part of a team that focuses on what we can do instead of what’s already been done? This is your opportunity.  From BlockChain to AWS, deep learning and AI, you’ll work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to decide the different ways you want to grow – whether that’s by gaining diverse skills on a new project or deepening your expertise on innovative tech. Join us and you’ll find diverse paths, projects and people that inspire you to think outside-the-box and change the way people everywhere experience our products and services.

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
 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain code that meets requirements, is high quality, efficient, reusable and performs efficiently and effectively to provide a great customer experience
• Incorporate standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, testability and maintainability
• Candidates will be responsible for automating parts of the development process in a way that tightens the development feedback loop. They should also be able to identify opportunities for automation during the development process.
• Participate in code reviews to spot issues around architecture, performance, security, and more
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Contribute to design patterns and coding standards while being mentored
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.
• Use continuous delivery to ship incremental improvements many times per week

Skills and Experience

• Java 8 and above
• AWS
• Object Orient Programming, Functional Programming paradigms, writing reusable Java libraries, concurrency patterns in Java
• React, JavaScript/Typescript and technologies around it
• HTTP, RESTful APIs, HTML and CSS
• JUnit4, at least one assertion library, unit test, integration test , pen test and stress and load test, test automation, source code management and continuous integration and delivery
• code versioning tools, such as Git, ADO
• Maven and Gradle
• design and architectural patterns
• SQL and NoSQL databases

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related discipline, graduate degree preferred
• Proficient in Java 8+ (preferably 6+) with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

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