Job Description

Job Summary
Business

• Standard Chartered is a leading international bank operating in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our successful and sustainable business is built on doing tangible, long term good for our people, our customers and the communities we serve.

• Financial Markets eTrading has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive product roadmap. The FM eTrading system developments team is a specialist team responsible for the design and development of proprietary set of systems that will differentiate the bank in its core markets. eTrading systems are aimed at numerous customer markets including external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms.

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in ; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).

Key Responsibilities

• To join the Standard Chartered Bank eTrading Solutions Delivery team, responsible for software development & support using various tools & frameworks.

• As a senior developer, you'll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Singapore, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

• As a full stack developer with strong backend experience (mandatory), you will be expected to hit the ground running delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Singapore, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

Key Attributes

• An excellent Java developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites.
• Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why.
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development, and support of financial markets systems
• Experience with real-time (event-driven) architectures
• Provide second line support
• Domain knowledge in derivatives e-trading is a plus
• Some UI Development experience
• Being a full-stack web developer is a plus
• Should be able to mentor junior developers.
• Ability to drive design and project decisions by collaborating with key stake holders
• Potential to be an engineering manager including people management in future.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of development experience preferably full stack with strong backend experience (mandatory)
• Strong java development background with good hands-on experience in data structures and, algorithms and concurrency frameworks
• Sound technical understanding of Micro Services, REST API, XML, HTTP, MQ
• Experience in Messaging systems like Kafka, distributed caching systems like hazel cast, NoSQL systems like Cassandra
• Proven data project experience in application delivery.
• Proven experience in complex big data development across to multiple data source integration.
• Proven ability to drive innovative data engineering practices and architecture design.
• Proven ability to influence others for a common goal in a large organization.
• Knowledge in defining and implementing technology solutions.
• Good understanding of the Financial products in the FX.
• Must have strong sense of responsibility/ownership
• High learning aptitude, able to learn new products and technology very quickly
• Must be an effective communicator with business Communication literacy, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills
• A team player who enjoys working with people on all levels as well as being able to work independently and under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Master or bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics or related fields
• Business Communication (verbal and written)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Outstanding programming skills in Core Java with at least 10 years' experiences.
• Strong experience with Micro-services based architecture using Restful API.
• Experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
• Familiar with API gateways e.g. nginx.
• Familiar with distributed cache e.g. hazelcast.
• Experience on messaging service middleware like ActiveMQ, Solace.
• AWS cloud experience.
• Experience with Oracle SQL, Git, Maven, Eclipse.
• Domain experience in FX trade capture.
• Experience with Google Guice, sparkjava.
• Kafka, solace / solace vmr
• Kdb
• FX project experiences

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.

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