Job Summary

Standard Chartered bank is hiring senior Haskell developers for the front office Modelling and Analytics Group. We have dozens of developers working in very diverse financial market projects within corporate and institutional banking. Some of our projects are user-facing GUIs, others are server-side request handlers or reporting tools. Their scope ranges from small applications to support a single team, to processes that handle millions of trades, or have thousands of users. We use Haskell (or our in-house variant, Mu) for practically everything we do.

We expect solid computer science knowledge and demonstrated typed functional programming experience at all levels, but you will also be responsible for architecture design, stakeholder communication, project management, and project and/or team leadership. We use git for source control and Azure DevOps for code reviews, documentation and project tracking. No finance knowledge is required, but excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential. We believe our unique diversity is a key aspect of our success and strive to maintain an open and inclusive culture to everyone.

This role could be based in Poland, Singapore, UK, or France. 

Key Responsibilities

•    Software development to generate revenue for the bank.
•    Understand front office concerns in order to bridge the gap between the front office and back office.
•    Risk modelling to quantify the various kinds of risks faced by the Bank.
•    Deliver robust, high performance software and quantitative analyses.
•    Work closely with FM traders and structuring teams, analysing trades and asset origination opportunities for execution and ongoing measurement and management.
•    Maintain and develop cutting edge trading, pricing and multi assets risk management platforms.
•    Work on projects ranging from client-facing GUIs, server-side request handlers or reporting tools, and devops.
•    Use of Haskell and our in-house variant, Mu.

Skills and Experience

•    3+ years of experience as a software developer.
•    Strong computer science background, data structure and algorithms, concurrency, multi-threaded programming.
•    Strong stakeholders communications skills.
•    Financial market background is preferred but not required.
•    Experience with Haskell programming language would be most preferred but we will consider candidates with suitable experience with statically typed functional programming languages such as Scala or O’Caml.
•    Experiences with C++, messaging systems such as Kafka, network protocols, data transport frameworks and formats, distributed systems, performance critical systems will be advantageous.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Software Engineering
• Haskell / Mu Development
• Technical Project Leadership
• Stakeholder Communication
• FM Business Domain Knowledge

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.