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When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based\nThe Software Engineer - Distributed Systems designs, builds, and supports highly scalable, resilient, and secure services for critical transaction processing environments. The role focuses on solving complex engineering problems across service orchestration, data consistency, failure recovery, observability, and performance at scale, delivering robust, high-throughput, low-latency critical banking systems. The engineer will be part of a high-performing team focused on engineering excellence and delivery quality. Experience with Go or Java is required. Experience with durable execution platforms such as Temporal, DBOS, or similar frameworks is a strong bonus.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategy\nHelp shape the engineering direction for critical, high-availability distributed systems.\nContribute to long-term thinking around scalability, resilience, maintainability, and platform evolution.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify complex workflows, reduce operational risk, and improve delivery speed.\nSupport adoption of better engineering practices, including automation, reusable patterns, and AI-assisted development where it adds value.\nThink beyond immediate implementation to ensure solutions are robust, future-ready, and aligned with evolving business needs.\nBring structured problem-solving and strong critical thinking to ambiguous technical challenges.\nPromote engineering excellence, code quality, and operational discipline.\nContribute to documentation, technical reviews, and continuous improvement activities.\nUndertake additional responsibilities as assigned within the scope of the role.\nApply secure engineering practices in line with internal governance and compliance expectations.\nBuild solutions that support integrity, reliability, traceability, and controlled operational behaviour.\nBusiness\nDesign and build distributed backend services for high-volume transaction processing.\nDevelop scalable, fault-tolerant solutions for transaction-heavy systems.\nImplement resilient integration patterns across APIs, queues, streaming platforms, and internal services.\nBuild strong validation, integrity, idempotency, and recovery mechanisms to support safe and consistent processing.\nDeliver solutions that improve availability, consistency, and operational resilience.\nTranslate business and operational needs into well-structured technical implementations.\n\nPeople & Talent\nCollaborate effectively with engineering peers and contribute to a positive, high-performance team culture.\nShare knowledge, learn continuously, and support skill development through strong technical contribution and example.\nDemonstrate self-driven ownership, curiosity, and a strong can-do attitude.\nWork constructively with others to solve hard technical problems and deliver against commitments.\nGovernance\nFollow engineering standards, design principles, and delivery practices that support safe and reliable execution.\nApply disciplined software development practices, including testing, code quality, and maintainability.\nSupport the use of AI development tools responsibly through sound engineering judgement and hardening practices.\nMaintain clear decision-making, traceability, and accountability in technical delivery.\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.\n\nKey stakeholders\nWork with product, platform, engineering, and delivery stakeholders to ensure solutions meet technical and operational needs.\nEngage with relevant technical partners to align on implementation approach, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.\nCommunicate clearly on progress, risks, and technical decisions.\nBuild effective working relationships across teams to support delivery of complex engineering outcomes.\nOther Responsibilities\nEmbrace and practise SCB’s brand promise of Here for Good and corporate values\nPerform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures\nResponsible for building a culture of good conduct\nOur Ideal Candidate\n10+ years’ experience inStrong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Go or Java.\nProven experience designing and building distributed systems or high-availability backend services.\nStrong software architecture experience, with the ability to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems.\nSolid knowledge of software design patterns and the ability to apply them effectively in real-world engineering solutions.\nSolid understanding of concurrency, service-to-service communication, and failure handling.\nExperience with high-throughput, low-latency, and resilient system design.\nFamiliarity with transactional consistency, idempotency, retries, and recovery patterns.\nExperience working in environments with strict reliability, observability, and operational requirements.\nExperience working on critical financial or transaction-intensive systems is highly desirable.\nExperience with durable execution frameworks (for example Temporal, DBOS, or similar) is a strong bonus.\nStrong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.\nExperience with AI hardening design, including safe, reliable, and controlled use of AI in engineering workflows.\nSelf-driven, curious, and optimistic with a strong can-do attitude.\nGood communication skills and a collaborative engineering mindset.\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nRole Specific Technical Competencies\nSoftware Engineering\nSoftware Development\nApplication Design, Architecture\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOver 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.\nWhat we offer\nBeing part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.\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 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.\nVisit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.\nRecruitment Assessments\nSome of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. 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