Sr Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech

Job Summary

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with expertise in AI-enabled application development and integration, responsible for designing, developing, integrating and maintaining scalable in-house applications and services. You will work alongside Engineers, Developers, Architects, Product Owners, Risk and Platform teams across different layers of the applications. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, responsible AI adoption, secure design, engineering excellence and the creation of high-quality products is essential

Key Responsibilities

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, 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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

•    Java
•    SpringBoot
•    RDBMS
•    Maven/Gradle
•    ReactJS (or EmberJS)
•    JavaScript, NodeJS
•    DevOps CICD (ADO)
•    Kubernetes, EKS, OCP, ECS etc.
•    Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
•    GenAI / LLM Integration
•    RAG, Embeddings and Vector Search
•    Agentic AI Frameworks and Orchestration
•    Prompt Engineering and Prompt Management
•    Responsible AI, Guardrails and Model Risk Controls

Qualifications

•    Minimum experience of 10 years in IT industry with at least 8 years of relevant experience
•    Proficient in RESTful API, SpringBoot 3.x, SpringBatch
•    Should have knowledge on Relational and/or No-SQL Databases
•    Should have working experience messaging concepts using JMS with Solace, Kafka, IBM MQ etc.
•    Preferred to have knowledge on API Gateways, API security, OAuth 2, OIDC etc.
•    Should be independently able to manage CICD tasks using Azure ADO, Maven & Helm Charts
•    Experienced in Container Infrastructure such as Kubernetes, OCP or AWS EKS.
•    Experienced working in an Agile environment with globally distributed teams.
•    Implement secure and governed AI integrations aligned to enterprise standards, including access control, input/output guardrails, auditability, explainability, human oversight, data privacy and responsible AI controls.
•    Build and maintain services using Java/Spring Boot and approved frameworks or platforms, ensuring reusable APIs, configurable prompts, managed memory, model lifecycle integration and resilient service design.
•    Support observability and operational readiness by enabling logging, monitoring, prompt-token usage tracking, latency/error-rate tracking, feedback capture and continuous improvement of services.

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.