Job Summary

We’re a well-funded, early-stage London-based venture on a mission to revolutionize compliance for banks and fintechs with cutting-edge, AI-powered regtech solutions. We’re building a product and engineering team to drive the platform in an agile way, using AI and ML at its core, enabled by microservice running in AWS. We aim for full CI/CD, deploying as soon as tests are green.

We value clarity, transparency, and craftsmanship in everything we do. We believe that speed comes from doing things right, and we encourage creative use of AI, not just in our products, but in every aspect of how we work.

Key Responsibilities

Your mission is to lead the evolution of our platform by simplifying user journeys, optimizing microservices workflows, and extending our domain model into a cutting-edge knowledge graph. As a Senior Engineer, you are accountable for the quality, speed, and reliability of our microservices architecture, ensuring seamless user experiences and robust data security. You will transform innovative ideas into scalable code, automate everything from CI/CD to testing, and solve real customer problems at scale.

• End-to-end ownership: Engage directly with customers to close feedback loops and shape the product.
• Modern DevOps culture: Deploy microservices multiple times per day with confidence.
• Work with AI and expand your skills into Python and other emerging technologies.
• Be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team building the next generation of microservices platforms.
• Continous learning, we believe ongoing training is key to success.

Skills and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems using microservices and event sourcing with Node.js and React.
• Solid experience of service-to-service communication, API design, and contract testing.
• You are comfortable in agile environments, resolving ambiguity.
• Strong focus on customer needs, with a passion for building platforms that empower clients.
• Commitment to cybersecurity best practices and data privacy.
• Automation-first mindset: from infrastructure to testing and deployment.
• Growth mindset: you embrace change, continuous learning, and innovation.

Familiarity with all components of our tech stack - 

• Frontend: React
• Backend: Nest.js, Python/fastapi, LangChain
• Test Automation: Pact, Jest, Cypress, and Pytest (including AI test automation)
• Infrastructure: AWS ECS, PostgreSQL, Kafka (migrating from RabbitMQ)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (using native AWS services where possible)
• CI/CD: GitHub-based tooling

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.