Lead Fullstack Developer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and technically solid developers for the initiatives within our Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Centre of Excellence. This job involves end-to-end development of innovative, high-impact projects involving blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, and enterprise-grade integrations. The ideal person will bring a balance of deep technical expertise capabilities to drive product delivery over emerging technologies and regulated environments.

The person must be a skilled professional who has E2E software development experience with a desire to work on an agile, dynamic and flat organisational structure.  Must have hands-on background in establishing applications to run customer journey and experience.  They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code. They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other’s designs and code. They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group. They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production. 

Core Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Blockchain Platforms: Hands-on experience with permissioned blockchain frameworks such as Quorum, Hyperledger Besu, Hyperledger Fabric, and Corda, among them provisioning, configuration, and orchestration.
•    DLT Use Cases: Demonstrated understanding of DLT applications such as Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization, Cross-Border Payments, Decentralized Identity (DID), and smart contract-based financial products.
•    Software Engineering: Solid proficiency in backend development using Python or Golang, Solidity, RESTful API design, and microservice architectures.
•    DevOps & Deployment: Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. Proven track record deploying systems on AWS EKS or Azure AKS using CI/CD pipelines.
•    Cryptography & Security: Know-how of cryptographic primitives among them public/private main infrastructure, symmetric/asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and secure core management.
•    System Integration: Capability to collaborate throughout platform, security, network, and compliance teams to secure seamless integration of DLT services into enterprise ecosystems.
•    Cloud & Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure networking, access controls, high-availability setups, and infrastructure automation.

Business
•    Create & sustain blockchain protocols, smart contracts, tokenization modules and consensus algorithms.
•    Secure security, integrity, and scalability of blockchain solutions.
•    Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
•    Troubleshoot and resolve issues in blockchain applications and systems.
•    Suggest blockchain development processes and best practices. 
•    Undertake code reviews to guarantee code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.

Processes
•    Solution Governance: Experience collaborating with solution architects and security domain experts to design and implement systems compliant with internal controls, frameworks, and best practices.
•    Standards & Methodologies: Proficiency in SDLC practices, Agile delivery, Git-based version control, issue tracking systems, and technical documentation.

People & Talent 
•    Leadership: Proven capability to partner with cross-functional teams (Dev, DevOps, QA) through the full delivery lifecycle from ideation to implementation.
•    Stakeholder Management: Comfortable interacting with business users, compliance, security, and external partners, aligning technical goals with business outcomes.
•    Problem Solving: Adept at navigating ambiguity and producing creative, robust solutions under tight deadlines and evolving criteria.
•    Communication: Clear and persuasive communicator able to translate intricate technical ideas into actionable observations for diverse audiences.
•    Results-Driven: Sound track record of meeting delivery milestones while upholding code quality and security standards.
•    Capacity to coach and support junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Risk Management
•    The aptitude to interpret and align all responsible applications under the Groups technology and security framework, recognise main issues based and put in place appropriate controls and measure. 
•    Successfully and collaboratively recognise, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy complaint conduct is the norm

Governance 
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, around infrastructure hosting and data management for customer facing applications, and the regulatory expectations and expectations for the Bank.  Ensure application design considerations are taken based on this.
•    Efficiently and collaboratively pinpoint, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy complaint conduct is the norm.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, among them regulatory and business conduct, throughout Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and securing compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Productively and collaboratively spot, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Competencies and Experience

Significant expertise in Core Java and J2EE technologies (e.g., Servlets, JSP, Spring, Hibernate).

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Public Cloud (AWS/GCP), React UI

Sound proficiency with JavaScript frameworks, particularly React

Design and consume RESTful APIs and microservices

DevOps & Deployment: Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. Proven track record deploying systems on AWS EKS or Azure AKS using CI/CD pipelines.

Demonstrated understanding of DLT applications such as Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization, Cross-Border Payments, Decentralized Identity (DID), and smart contract-based financial products.

Understanding of cryptographic primitives covering public/private key infrastructure, symmetric/asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and secure main management.

System Integration: Aptitude to collaborate spanning platform, security, network, and compliance teams to guarantee seamless integration of DLT services into enterprise ecosystems.

Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure networking, access controls, high-availability setups, and infrastructure automation.

Qualifications

•    Masters or Engineering background

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 prospects 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 partner 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 upgrade 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 develop 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 covering 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 abilities, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your expansion, with openings 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, spanning our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.