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The primary responsibility is to design, build, and operate scalable software services for market, static, and reference data, with strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and developer-friendly interfaces.\nWhilst the SABRE platform has continuously been improved over the years to scale to an ever-increasing user base and a growing number of capabilities, amount of data and computation, its static and market data components have grown organically without going through any drastic transformation. The refreshed FM static and market strategy also provides a unique opportunity to realign the SABRE Static and Market Data Service (MDS) software architecture, interfaces and operational processes to that strategy.\nAs a Software Engineer, this role will help build a strategic platform that provides a unified data API and a centralized data store for intraday and EOD pricing and risk workflows. You will contribute across the full engineering lifecycle: architecture design, data model implementation, service development, integration, testing, production rollout, and continuous improvement.\nFALCON is Financial Markets’ strategic market and reference data platform, built to unify how the bank sources, stores, manages, and distributes market data across all asset classes. Instead of today’s fragmented landscape - multiple systems, duplicate data flows, inconsistent repositories, and manual curve setups - FALCON provides a single, end to end data foundation for real time intraday prices, historical time series, official EOD snaps, and reference data. From an engineering standpoint, the platform focuses on:\nBuilding high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and distribution services.\nImplementing robust data quality controls, lineage, and restatement capabilities.\nDesigning resilient APIs and event-driven workflows for downstream consumers.\nReducing operational risk through automation, observability, and controlled release processes.\nEnabling rapid onboarding of new market observables through reusable platform components.\nBy consolidating market and reference data into one cohesive platform, this role directly improves the consistency and timeliness of data used by Front Office, Risk, Finance, and Operations, while creating a scalable technical foundation for future automation and growth.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain business features in the FALCON platform using Java and related libraries.\nTranslate functional and data requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable service implementations aligned with FALCON architecture standards.\nBuild and enhance core components for market and reference data workflows, including ingestion, validation, transformation, and distribution.\nImplement and optimize REST/API integrations, messaging/event flows, and database access layers to support intraday and EOD use cases.\nWrite high-quality code with strong unit/integration test coverage, and ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, and security expectations.\nCollaborate closely with Product, Business Analysts, QA, and peer engineers to clarify requirements, refine technical solutions, and deliver sprint commitments.\nParticipate in code reviews, troubleshooting, and defect resolution; perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes.\nSupport production releases and post-release stability by improving observability, logging, monitoring, and operational runbooks.\nProactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and communicate mitigation plans to the team in a timely manner.\nContinuously improve engineering practices through refactoring, automation, and contribution to shared platform components.\nRegulatory & Business Conduct\nDisplay exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.\nTake 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.\nEffectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters\nKey Stakeholders\nTraders, quantitative analysts, middle office, operations, market risk, finance, business analysts, testers, project managers, support groups\nSkills and Experience\nJava Development and Backend Engineering\nBackend Service Design and API HTTP/HTTPS and WebSocket Development\nRelational Databases and SQL Time Series Data and Data Modeling\nHigh Concurrency and Performance Optimization\nFinancial Markets Domain Knowledge\nCommunication and Stakeholder Collaboration\nQualifications\n5-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong focus on Java backend development in enterprise environments.\nStrong proficiency in core Java, including object-oriented design, collections, concurrency, multithreading, memory/performance considerations, and common design patterns.\nSolid experience with Maven, Git, and standard team-based development workflows including branching, code review, and version control best practices.\nProven experience in backend service development, including service design, API implementation, integration patterns, and building reliable, maintainable, and scalable distributed systems.\nGood understanding of relational databases, including SQL design, query optimization, transactions, indexing, and data modeling.\nFamiliarity with time-series data storage and query patterns, especially for large-volume historical and intraday financial data.\nExperience building systems for high-throughput and high-concurrency workloads, with strong understanding of performance tuning, asynchronous processing, caching, and resilience patterns.\nStrong foundation in data structures and algorithms, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in production systems.\nHands-on experience with HTTP/HTTPS service development, RESTful APIs, and real-time communication technologies such as WebSocket.\nExperience with search and indexing technologies is a plus; knowledge of Lucene or Lucene-based search solutions is highly desirable.\nFamiliarity with containerization and deployment practices, including Docker and Kubernetes-based environments.\nBasic to solid Linux command-line skills, including scripting with Shell for automation, troubleshooting, and operational support.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines and standard software delivery processes, including build, test, packaging, deployment, and release controls.\nGood understanding of software quality practices, including unit testing, integration testing, debugging, observability, and production issue analysis.\nExperience with messaging, event-driven architecture, or batch/stream processing is a strong plus.\nUnderstanding of security and secure coding fundamentals for backend services, including authentication, authorization, encryption in transit, and secrets handling.\nExposure to financial markets domain concepts is preferred, especially market data, reference data, pricing data, time series, or cross-asset workflows.\nBasic knowledge of financial instruments and trading-related data concepts is beneficial, even if not at quantitative or pricing-model level.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.\nEffective communication skills and ability to work closely with engineers, QA, product partners, and business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.\nSelf-driven, delivery-focused, and able to manage priorities across multiple parallel workstreams.\nHigh level of ownership, attention to detail, integrity, and willingness to support production systems when needed.\nLanguages: Chinese, English\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOur 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.\nTogether we:\nDo the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do\nNever settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well\nAre better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term\nWhat we offer\nIn line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.\nCore bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.\n 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.\nFlexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.\nProactive 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\nA continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.\n Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - 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