Lead Developer

Job Summary

About Standard Chartered

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, here for good.

About the Team

FM Digital Channels is a global team driven to provide world class technology in support of the bank’s Financial Markets business. Blade is the bank’s strategic, in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join international team of smart technologists serving global business in the financial market’s domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful, and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.

Key Responsibilities

As a lead developer based in Singapore, you’ll lead a globally distributed team, with sharp focus on specific business domain. You will drive our platform forwards and deliver quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Your team will collaborate in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

• Serves as senior developer, potentially leading a squad of several members.
• Unblocks progress and solves problems at the team’s level,
• Owns the technical aspect of the team's delivery,
• Owns the effectiveness of the stream's development processes,
• Drives the technical roadmap for the stream and participates in improving the wider platform,
• Oversees the designs done by other developers and ensures they are aligned with the roadmaps,
• Oversees the velocity and quality of the code produced by the stream's developers.

Strategy

• Definition of the team’s technical roadmap, adherence to the platform’s roadmap.

Business

• Take ownership of the of design and delivery of assigned features. Take ownership for and drive the delivery of platform-wide initiatives and issue remediations.

Processes

• Facilitate the team’s technical design and delivery processes. Own the team’s process improvements initiatives.

People & Talent

• Participate in hiring, engage in peer coaching.

Risk Management

• According to Global and FM Technology risk management frameworks

Governance

• According to Global and FM Technology governance frameworks

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

• Head of Development, Head of Programme Delivery, Squad Technical Leads, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, QA Leads, Business Product Owners, other Engineering Managers, Platform Architect.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of relevant experience in full stack engineering background with deep expertise in either front end or back end development, and solid hands on experience across the other part of the stack.
• Possess good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites,
• Expert or experienced in React, Redux, RX JS, NPM/Yarn, webpack, CSS, HTML and the rest of web stack.
• Expert or experienced in Java and Spring Boot. Knowledge of reactive programming is a strong plus.
• Writes efficient, clear and well tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why,
• Built complex, real-time, event-driven, highly componentized applications,
• Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems.
• Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking, Derivatives product knowledge and e-trading technology experience.
• Proven technical leadership experience with experience leading a team in an agile product development environment,
• Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts,
• Proactive and autonomous self-starter.
• Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems,
• Keen problem solver, with strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java, Spring Boot & RX Java
• Microservices, Containers and Cloud
• Architecture and System Design
• SDLC incl. Agile & Waterfall
• Financial markets domain knowledge. Knowledge in FX options will be strong advantage.
• Modular Web UI Applications (SPA)
• Apache Kafka and Cassandra experience
• Full stack integration protocols incl. REST & WebSocket
• Web UI technologies incl. JS, React, Redux, Webpack
• DevOps technologies incl. CI/CD pipelines, Promotheus, Grafana, ELK
• Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
• People Management

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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