Job Summary

We are looking for a dedicated and highly skilled Full Stack Developer with 5+ years of experience to join our innovative team focused on financial crime prevention and cyber investigations. This key role involves designing, developing, and maintaining robust applications that support complex workflows such as investigation management, case handling, alert triage, and automation of operational processes. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including GenAI and advanced AI engineering techniques, contributing to intelligent, scalable solutions that help protect our clients and business from financial crime threats.

This is an exciting position offering the chance to impact global financial security through technology innovation, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver technical excellence and business value.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Innovation

• Play a critical role in shaping and executing the FinCrime & Cyber technology roadmap by building full stack solutions aligned with the bank's strategic objectives and digital transformation initiatives.
• Investigate and pilot emerging technologies such as Generative AI, vector databases, and AI-driven digital assistants to drive automation and optimize investigative processes.

Business Collaboration & Solution Design

• Work directly with analysts, investigators, and risk management teams to gather requirements and translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions that enhance fraud detection and case handling.
• Develop, test, and deploy features that improve operational workflows, streamline alert triage, and enable rapid case resolution with measurable reductions in investigation time.
• Ensure that developed applications contribute to strengthening operational resilience and regulatory compliance.

Development & Operational Excellence

• Design and implement full stack applications using technologies such as Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and PostgreSQL to create user-friendly and performant solutions.
• Build robust APIs and backend services to integrate with existing case management platforms and investigative toolsets.
• Support data engineering initiatives employing Python, Airflow, and Databricks for ETL workflows where applicable.
• Develop AI Agentic applications leveraging frameworks such as Google ADK, Langgraph, and Langchain to embed intelligent capabilities.
• Deploy and manage applications using containerization with Docker or Podman, orchestrated by Kubernetes for scalability and reliability.
• Apply DevSecOps methodologies encompassing secure coding practices, comprehensive automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines to uphold the highest quality and security standards.

People & Talent

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical mentorship and knowledge sharing where needed.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation within the FinCrime & Cyber team.

Risk Management

• Build applications that adhere to cybersecurity and data privacy standards.
• Identify and mitigate risks in software design, deployment, and integration.
• Ensure secure authentication, authorization, and audit trails are embedded in applications.

Governance

• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and design approvals to ensure compliance with technology standards.
• Maintain documentation, version control, and consistent coding practices aligned with enterprise policies.

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

• FCSO
• FRM
• Cyber Operations

Skills and Experience

Frontend Development:

 Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, with experience using Next.js or similar modern front-end frameworks to build responsive, user-centric interfaces.

Backend Development:

Strong skills in Node.js, including API development, authentication mechanisms, and system integrations to deliver scalable backend services.

Database Management:

Expertise with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL, and Oracle, with a solid grounding in designing efficient schemas and writing optimized queries.

Data Engineering:

 Familiarity with Python, Airflow, Databricks, and ETL pipeline development to support data processing and analytics workflows is desirable.

AI and Machine Learning:

Experience in building LLM-driven applications and leveraging frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Google ADK to create intelligent agentic applications.

DevOps and Deployment:

 Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes) for robust deployment and scaling.

DevSecOps Practices:

Commitment to secure coding standards, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD) to ensure resilient and maintainable software.

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrable AI engineering capabilities and familiarity with contemporary AI tools for innovative solution design.
• Proficiency in full-stack Python development and Java full-stack development is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills combined with attention to detail and an understanding of security considerations in financial technology.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a customer-focused mindset.

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.