Job Summary

• Standard Chartered is seeking a technically strong and solutions-oriented Frontend engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable, high-performance web applications. You will play a key role in establishing frontend design principles, coding standards, and architectural patterns aligned with the company’s long-term vision.
• In this role, you’ll architect performance-first React applications using modern frameworks (React Server Components, Streaming SSR), drive architectural decisions, and troubleshoot complex problems across application and infrastructure layers. You will also be responsible for mentoring teams, breaking down complex requirements into actionable user stories, and promoting best practices in Agile development and secure programming.
• This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where you will collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to deliver forward-looking solutions that are modular, extensible, and aligned with evolving technology standards.

This role could be based in Malaysia or China. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce frontend design principles, coding standards, and architectural patterns in line with the company's long-term vision. Mentor teams to ensure consistent adoption and alignment with business objectives.
• Architect performance-first React applications form inception. Lead migration to modern optimizations (React Server Components, Streaming SSR). Research & prototype emerging solution. 
• Having strong analytical skill & able to look at the problem from many angles. Able to narrow down the problem and resolving the issue in a short time.
• Having a broad level view / expertise that can troubleshoot a problem from different infra layer in eco system. Having what it takes to advise other team as well as internal team in resolving the issue from end to end.
• Lead a team, and able to groom the team on the technical/domain expertise.
• Design and enforce robust architectural frameworks for React applications. Defined a forward-looking architectural vision, prioritizing modularity, performance, and extensibility to future-proof applications. Mentor teams in adopting the standards that withstand technological shifts.
• Capable of doing requirement analysis for complex requirement. Convert them into smaller user stories. Support the team for the whole application development & deployment & support. 
• Champion on the SDLC processes & Agile. Driving the adoption & promote the processes in the team Owning the project releases.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions (FE/BE alignment) Resolve cross-squad dependencies (micro-frontends, shared libs) Negotiate requirements with product owner (tech feasibility). 
• Overseeing requirement for the application level. Provide consultancy & mentoring & guidance to the team during the requirement understanding & agile processes.
• Strong understanding on the security domain, can be a gatekeeper, Install the security checklist & promoting good security habit in programming.

Strategy

• aligning frontend architecture with long-term platform direction
• improving scalability, performance, maintainability
• supporting digital transformation and engineering standards

Business

• delivering reliable, high-quality frontend capabilities for business applications
• enabling faster feature delivery and better user experience
• supporting product, engineering, and business priorities through technical solutions

Processes

• SDLC, Agile ceremonies, release management
• requirement analysis and breaking work into user stories
• code reviews, testing, CI/CD, deployment support
• incident troubleshooting and production support

People & Talent 

• mentoring junior developers
• sharing technical knowledge and best practices
• supporting onboarding and peer learning
• promoting strong engineering and security habits

Risk Management

• secure coding and security checks
• performance, resilience, and production stability
• issue escalation and remediation
• compliance with internal standards and controls

Governance 

• following engineering standards, architecture guardrails, and change controls
• ensuring proper documentation, approvals, and release discipline
• complying with policy, audit, and internal control requirements
• maintaining traceability across development and deployment lifecycle

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 Owner
• Engineering Lead
• Chapter Lead

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Malaysia / WRB Tech / OTC; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [Development, Squad Lead, Release champion]

Skills and Experience

• HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Bootstrap 
• React Framework and Redux
• Rest API, GraphQL, WebSocket
• responsive UI design
• CI/CD processes
• UI/UX and Wireframe / Figma
• Micro frontend and Performance Analysis
• unit tests cases and low-level end to end and define test strategies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline; equivalent practical experience also accepted.
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on frontend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bootstrap, React, and Redux.
• Proven track record in building scalable, high-performance web applications and responsive UI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with REST API, GraphQL, and WebSocket integration, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing strategy, unit testing, end-to-end testing, and release support.
• Strong capability in performance optimisation, troubleshooting, secure coding, and engineering best practices.
• Experience in requirement analysis, user story breakdown, and collaboration with product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Ability to mentor peers and promote quality, security, and frontend engineering standards.

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.