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Job Summary
About SC Ventures

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

Responsibilities
SC Ventures AI Lab is looking for an AI-native developer – someone who's already building with ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI coding tools, and wants to take their skills to the next level by building enterprise AI applications across banking, digital assets, fintech, and other emerging technologies.

This isn't a traditional junior developer role. We're looking for self-starters who may have limited professional experience but have proven they can ship AI-powered projects. If you've built full-stack apps using AI tools, integrated LLM APIs, or used agentic coding platforms – we want to talk.

You'll work on real AI use cases for SC Ventures and our venture portfolio companies worldwide, building production-quality proof-of-concepts that validate business value before full deployment.

Strategy
Operations & Compliance
•    Customer verification automation – Build document processing pipelines that extract and validate information from identity documents, financial statements, and compliance forms using vision models and LLMs
•    Intelligent compliance systems – Create multi-agent workflows that automate vendor onboarding, risk assessment, and regulatory approval processes
•    Fraud detection and prevention – Develop ML-powered systems that identify suspicious transaction patterns and protect vulnerable customers from financial abuse
Venture & Investment Tools
•    AI-powered deal evaluation – Build intelligent systems that analyze startup pitches, generate investment memos, and score opportunities against portfolio criteria
•    Automated due diligence platforms – Create tools that assess technical quality, codebase health, and technology stack decisions for potential investments
•    Portfolio intelligence dashboards – Develop real-time analytics and monitoring systems for tracking venture performance and identifying intervention opportunities
Productivity & Efficiency
•    AI assistants for specialized roles – Build domain-specific AI agents that answer technical, legal, or compliance questions for venture teams
•    Knowledge management systems – Create intelligent documentation platforms that capture institutional knowledge, automate meeting summaries, and enable semantic search across company resources
1.    Process automation tools – Develop workflow automation using agentic AI to streamline repetitive tasks across operations, HR, and business functions

Processes
What You'll Do
Core Development (60%)
•    Build full-stack AI applications using Next.js and/or Python
•    Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Azure AI Foundry)
•    Design PostgreSQL schemas and implement with ORMs (Drizzle, Prisma, SQLAlchemy)
•    Create responsive UIs with Tailwind CSS
•    Deploy to AWS/Azure (Lambda, ECS, App Service) or Vercel
AI Integration (30%)
•    Build agentic workflows using LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, or custom orchestration
•    Implement langchain ingestion pipelines with vector and graph databases
•    Design prompt templates and evaluation frameworks
•    Integrate document processing (PDF parsing, OCR, table extraction)
•    Implement evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, Promptfoo, GEval)

Collaboration, R&D (10%)
•    Partner with data scientists, business analysts, and venture teams
•    Present POC demos and technical findings to stakeholders
•    Code reviews and knowledge sharing with the team
•    Research and development of new AI technologies and solutions along with our partners and ecosystem

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

Internal:
Group and SCV:
•    SC Group Traded Risk Management (TRM)
•    SC Group Credit Risk
•    SC Group Treasury Risk
•    SC Group Digital Asset Risk
•    SCV Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
•    SCV Chief Operating Officer (COO) / Accelerators
•    SCV Risk Framework Owners (RFO), and 
•    SCV Functional Subject Matter Experts (SME)

External:
•    Relevant external regulator

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures; 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications
Education
•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
•    OR Bootcamp grad with strong portfolio
•    OR Self-taught developer with demonstrable projects

Experience Level
•    0-2 years professional experience (graduate level welcome)
•    Strong portfolio of personal projects or open-source work
•    At least 2-3 full-stack projects you can walk us through
•    At least 1 project integrating AI/ML (LLM API, ML model, AI tool)

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Agile Development
•    Cloud Computing
•    Emerging Technologies

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.