Sr. Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech

Job description

We are seeking a talented and motivated senior JAVA software engineer to join a high performing Scrum team to roll out new digital solution for SCB customers.

The candidate must be a skilled professional who has E2E software development experience with a desire to work on an Agile, dynamic and flat organisational structure.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop function modules
• Develop core foundation modules
• Participate and Focus on design, dev, testing, implementation process
• Agile development of banking services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development
• Conduct continuous development and / or integration

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend services using Java 17 or 21 and Spring Boot or Quarkus.
  
  
• Implement scalable and maintainable microservices architecture.
  
  
• Develop REST and SOAP APIs.
• Ensure efficient database connectivity using ORM frameworks.
  
  
• Develop and maintain messaging services with JMS, MQ, Kafka and Solace.
  
  
• Experience with Java frameworks like Spring, Struts, and Enterprise JavaBeans is a plus.
  
  
• Ensure seamless API connectivity using gateways like Kong or Axway.
  
  
• Manage dependencies and build processes with Apache Maven.
  
  
• Containerize applications with Docker for consistent deployment.
  
  
• Adhere to coding standards, perform code reviews, and refactor code as needed.
  
  
• Ensure code meets security standards with no high/critical vulnerabilities.
  
  
• Optimize code to meet performance standards.
  
  
• Use Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and project management.
  
  
• Deploy and manage applications on Red Hat OpenShift or AWS.
  
  
• Implement service virtualization for testing and development.
  
  
• Write and maintain unit tests with JUnit.
  
  
• Conduct integration testing for seamless component interaction.
  
  
• Document APIs using Swagger.
  
  
• Collaborate with various technology teams and stakeholders.
  
  
• Oversee functional standards and provide technical assistance to team members.
  
  

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• 6+ years of development experience

• Strong knowledge of multiple programming languages (Java, Spring, Spring boot, PostgreSQL/Oracle, Hibernate as well as interpreted scripting language experience)

• Restful API design and development

• Microservices implementation experience with focus on domain drive design.

• Familiar with Docker, Openshift container platform

• Familiar and work experience with Linux/Shell script.

• Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills

• Understand business, functional and technical requirement and specification and identify gap and provide feedback.

• Good communication and written skills for daily work across team.

• Prior experience working in an agile environment, continuous integration

• Experience in delivering software in a regulated environment, ideally financial services based to high quality

• Have a high enthusiasm for programming and new technology learning, have a strong learning ability

Bachelor’s degree

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.
  
  

Required Skill Profession

It & Technology