Job Summary

 We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our dynamic new team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java development, with expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that meet our business needs – intraday Risk platform build-out.

Key Responsibilities

•    Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance Java applications for our intraday risk platform
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and implement features
•    Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and design patterns
•    Develop and integrate APIs and microservices/services
•    Create responsive and intuitive user interfaces using modern front-end frameworks
•    Implement robust data processing and analytics capabilities for risk assessment
•    Perform code reviews and provide technical guidance to junior developers
•    Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance
•    Ensure application security and compliance with banking industry standards
•    Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
•    Support users and contribute to platform uat and prod green state

Gen AI Readiness
•    Demonstrated ability to leverage generative AI tools for accelerated development
•    Understanding of prompt engineering for effective AI tool utilization
•    Experience integrating AI capabilities into development workflows
•    Ability to evaluate and optimize AI-generated code
•    Openness to adopting emerging AI technologies in the development process
•    Knowledge of best practices for AI-augmented software development

Strategy
•    Strategic solutioning yet with progressive evolving solutions.

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels

Governance
•    Operates within standard

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Product Owners
•    Product Engineers
•    Traders
•    Enterprise Technology 
•    Senior Stakeholders within Risk
•    Senior Technology Stakeholders within CIB TTO across platform and architecture

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
•    MS or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
•    Minimum of 5 years of experience in full stack development with a focus on Java in a mission critical markets context
•    Experience with version control systems, preferably Git
•    Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle
•    Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
•    Nice-to-have experience in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React
•    Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
•    Strong communication and teamwork abilities
•    Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools for faster, better solutions in day-to-day work

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
•    Experience with microservices/Event-Driven architectures
•    Experience with high-performance Risk technologies
•    Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
•    Used to Agile/Scrum methodologies
•    Experience with AI-powered development tools and platforms
•    Ability to effectively utilize generative AI for code optimization and problem-solving

Skills and Experience

•    Languages: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS
•    Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, React
•    APIs: RESTful, gRPC
•    Databases: SQL, ClickHouse, NoSQL, Hibernate
•    Tools: ADO, Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
•    Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
•    Messaging: KAFKA, SOLACE
•    OS: linux, window
•    Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, TDD, CI/CD
•    AI Integration: Experience with AI-assisted development tools and platforms
•    System and Apps Engineering 
•    Full Stack – UI and Back-end
•    Design
•    Infra Cloud / On-Prem engineering
•    Scripting

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.