Backend Engineer

Job Summary

About TrustBank:

Trust Bank is backed by a unique partnership between Standard Chartered, one of the world's most trusted banks with more than 160 years of experience in Singapore, and FairPrice Group, the nation’s leading grocery retailer for almost 50 years.

As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for automating and improving our tech risk, audit, and compliance processes. You'll design, develop, and implement backend solutions that help automate repetitive tasks, integrate risk management workflows, and ensure compliance with various regulatory frameworks. You will work closely with our security, devx, and operations teams to develop scripts and tools that drive efficiency and support continuous compliance. DevOps skills are a strong plus as we aim to improve our infrastructure and security posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend automation tools to support tech risk management, audit, and compliance processes.
• Develop and maintain scripts and systems to automate security compliance checks and auditing tasks.
• Integrate security and compliance monitoring into our CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous compliance and risk mitigation.
• Design and implement tools to track, manage, and mitigate tech risks across the infrastructure.
• Ensure that the backend systems and scripts adhere to security best practices and compliance standards.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (security, platform, risk, etc.) to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in security and compliance audits, contributing to the creation and maintenance of audit-ready systems.
• Continuously improve backend automation solutions for scalability, efficiency, and security.
• Participate in troubleshooting and remediating any security, audit, or compliance-related issues that arise in production.

People & Talent

• Experience with DevOps practices such as infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and security monitoring.
• Knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) and role-based access control (RBAC) in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with compliance automation platforms (e.g., CloudHealth, Qualys, or similar tools).
• Exposure to risk assessment tools and platforms for managing security posture and compliance status.
• Previous experience in industries with heavy regulatory requirements, such as finance, healthcare, or enterprise tech.
• Knowledge of penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and other security practices to identify potential risks.

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.

Skills and Experience

• Java/Spring Boot
• DevOps
• CI/CD

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or in a similar role with a focus on security, compliance, or automation.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, Shell, or similar languages for automating tasks related to risk and compliance management.
• Solid experience with microservices architecture and a good understanding of the microservices SDLC (design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring) to recognize and mitigate associated risks.
• Expertise with Kotlin and Spring Boot for building microservices-based backend solutions
• Experience in designing and developing backend systems that support security auditing and compliance monitoring.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating security/compliance checks into automated workflows.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and security features (IAM, encryption, monitoring).
• Experience working with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Familiarity with audit logs and security monitoring tools (e.g., SIEM, Splunk, ELK stack).
• Solid understanding of risk management principles and how to translate them into technical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle complex compliance challenges.
• Attention to detail, especially when managing sensitive security or compliance data.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.