Job Summary

About the Company
We are a quantum software company, applying cutting edge quantum, quantum inspired, and machine learning research to high impact enterprise use cases.
Our platform connects enterprises with ready-to-run, domain-specific applications and the building blocks behind them.  We enable enterprises to turn quantum potential into real world impact on an accelerated timeframe.
As a joint venture of Standard Chartered and Fujitsu, we exist to turn quantum from potential into impact.  We build high-performance, domain-intelligent applications, accelerate innovation through collaboration, and make frontier technologies accessible to the diverse innovators who will shape the future.
About the Role
In this role, you will work across multiple new ventures to design, build, and launch digital products from scratch. You will make foundational technical decisions, drive backend architecture, and ensure high-quality delivery across projects. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in fast-paced, zero-to-one environments and wants to influence technical direction while remaining deeply hands-on.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
•    Develop backend systems using modern programming languages such as Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go.
•    Design and build API-driven architectures (REST/RPC/GraphQL) and scalable backend services.
•    Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product designers, and venture founders to deliver impactful features.
•    Drive end-to-end delivery including architecture, implementation, security, testing, CI/CD, and deployment.
•    Make foundational architectural decisions and define technical roadmaps for early-stage ventures.
•    Implement strong operational practices including observability, monitoring, and incident response.
•    Contribute to improving company’s engineering standards, tooling, and development processes.
•    Mentor junior engineers and support onboarding as engineering teams expand.

Skills and Experience

Ideal Experience
•    Experience with Unix/Linux system administration.
•    Deep understanding of cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
•    Degree in Computer Science or related field.
•    Experience in fintech, quant-trading, quantum related sectors

Qualifications

Required Experience
•    7-9+ years of backend engineering experience building production systems.
•    Strong experience with Python, Node.js + TypeScript.
•    Experience building products from zero inside startups (not consulting or large enterprise-only).
•    Strong understanding of OS fundamentals, algorithms, networking, memory, CPU, and distributed systems.
•    Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL including ACID principles, performance tuning, and concurrency issues.
•    Experience with testing frameworks and writing, high-quality, maintainable code.
•    Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and declarative deployments (ArgoCD preferred).
•    Experience working with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
•    Experience with logging/monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic, or PagerDuty.
•    Ability to work autonomously and thrive in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.

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.