Lead / Senior Java Developer

Job Summary

FM Digital Channels is a global team driven to provide world class technology in support of the bank’s Financial Markets business. Solar is the bank’s strategic, in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform. 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 international team of smart technologists serving global business in the financial market’s 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.

Key Responsibilities

As a Lead Java Developer/Senior Java Developer, you’ll be joining a distributed team responsible for driving forwards the specific aspect of our global platform, and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Warsaw, your team will collaborate in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations. You will be expected to quickly learn existing design and coding patterns, consistently apply and collaboratively evolve them while delivering increasingly complex and exciting projects for our customers.

Development team will be focused on building a modern platform and business applications for sales and trading teams within our Financial Markets business. This is a unique opportunity to:

• Drive scope and requirements definition.
• Design solutions and evaluate technology.
• Break down large projects into incremental deliveries.
• Build opinionated core libraries and scalable core platform services.
• Build robust services for business tools such as sales-trader workflow, blotters, trader tools, analytics, and controls.
• Build automated tests to enable continuous delivery.
• See the results of your work on trading desks across the world and receive direct feedback from your business users.
• Support services you build and their users.

Skills and Experience

Technical skills: 

• Versatile Java developer with good software design principles.
  
• With 7+ years of relevant experience.
  
• Expert in Core Java, Spring Framework, RX Java, REST, Reactive Web Services.
  
• Experienced in micro-services and container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Docker.
  
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Azure DevOps.
  
• Experience with SQL databases and other distributed data stores, e.g. Oracle and Hazelcast.
  
• Experience with messaging technologies, e.g. Kafka and Solace.
  
• Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices.
  
• Able to design the solution to complex and/or ambiguous business problem that may require changes in existing architecture or frameworks.
  
• Writing efficient, clear, well-tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why.
  
• Built complex, real-time (event-driven), distributed systems.
  
• Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems.
  

Preferred skills:

• Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking.
   

Soft skills:

• Good team player, but able to deliver autonomously when required.
• Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing).
  
• Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts.
• Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems.
• Proactive self-starter, keen problem solver.
• With strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent (STEM is a preference).

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.
• 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.