Blade Backend Developer

Job Description

Responsibilities The Derivatives Pricing team is responsible for cross-product transactional pricing of derivatives within Standard Chartered. The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the banks Financial Markets business. We bring a deepunderstanding 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 an organization working with smart technologistsglobally in the financial markets 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. As a senior developer, youll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in London, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, projectmanagers and business stakeholders across multiple locations. Key Attributes

• An excellent Java developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites
• Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of financial markets systems
• Experience with real-time (event-driven) architectures
• Being a full-stack web developer is a plus

Technical skills:

• Hands on development with investment banking IT experience
• Core Java (essential), Concurrency, Spring
• RX Java is a plus
• Experience in micro-services and container technologies (preferably Docker) is a plus
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience with distributed data stores a plus
• Functional programming experience a plus

Functional skills:

• Financial Market domain knowledge
• Investment banking is a strong plus
• Derivatives business is a plus
• e-trading and FX is a plus

Soft skills:

• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Strong ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous
• Good team spirit

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups 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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Banks Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Core Java
• Microservices, containers and cloud experience
• Apache Kafka and Cassandra experience
• Front office application development experience
• Ability to develop latency sensitive systems
• Agile development
• Git and Atlassian toolset
• Financial markets domain knowledge
• Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent support of large scale data processing systems

Our Ideal Candidate

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 opportunitiesto grow and do better than before. If youre 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 cant wait to see the talents you canbring 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, youll 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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-helptoolkits

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. Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable