Solar Backend Developer

Job Summary

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 senior developer, you’ll be joining a distributed development team, responsible for driving forwards the specific aspect of our global platform, and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in London, your team will collaborate in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations. You will be expected to quickly learn existing design and coding patterns, consistently apply and collaboratively evolve them while delivering increasingly complex and exciting projects for our customers.

• Participate in all stages of delivery - from requirements gathering to post-release customer support,
• Build new functionality, carefully ensuring adherence to existing coding patterns,
• Own and collaborate on technical design,
• Break large projects into tasks, delegate them to other developers, own and coordinate the consolidated delivery of the solution,
• Coach others to minimise the amount of review iterations for their deliveries,
• Develop yourself towards the goal of becoming a senior full-stack developer.

Skills and Experience

Functional skills:

• Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking,
• Derivatives product knowledge, specifically Rates & Credit
• e-trading technology experience.

Technical skills:

• Versatile Java developer with good software design principles,
• With 7+ years of relevant experience,
• Expert in Core Java, Spring Framework, RX Java, REST, Reactive Web Services,
• Experienced in micro-services and container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Docker,
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Azure DevOps,
• Experience with SQL databases and other distributed data stores, e.g. Cassandra and Hazelcast,
• Experience with messaging technologies, e.g. Kafka and Solace,
• Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices,
• Able to design the solution to complex and/or ambiguous business problem that may require changes in existing architecture or frameworks,
• Writing efficient, clear, well-tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why,
• Built complex, real-time (event-driven), transactional applications,
• Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems,
• Delivered features across full stack

. Soft skills:

• Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing),
• Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts,
• Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems.
• Proactive and autonomous self-starter,
• Keen problem solver, with strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.

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.