Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

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 bank\xe2\x80\x99s Financial Markets business. 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 an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial market\xe2\x80\x99s 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, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Bangalore, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

Key Attributes

An excellent JavaScript (TypeScript) developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites.

• Familiarity with React, npm / yarn and webpack.
• 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.
• Domain knowledge in e-trading and FX is a plus.
• Provide second line support.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Our Ideal Candidate

Technical Skills

• 4 years hands on development with investment banking IT experience
• Core JavaScript (essential), TypeScript
• Single page modular application development
• Understanding of real-time (event-driven) application development
• Ability to develop latency sensitive systems
• Experience with git and Atlassian toolset
• Familiarity with Java is a plus
• React, npm / yarn and webpack
• Familiarity with Rx a plus
• Strong CSS

Functional Skills

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

Soft Skills

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

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Core JavaScript, TypeScript
• React, npm / yarn and webpack
• Git, CI / CD, Atlassian toolset
• Agile
• CSS

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• 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-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.

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