Job ID: 33573
Location: London, GB
Area of interest: Change and Transformation
Job type: Fixed Term Worker
Work style:
Opening date: Jul 4, 2025

JOB SUMMARY

We’re an ambitious new venture backed by leading investors and operating at the intersection of AI, regulation, and financial services. Our focus is on reimagining how institutions navigate regulatory complexity — using cutting-edge technology to bring clarity, speed, and confidence to critical decision-making processes.
While still early in our journey, we’re already working closely with a select group of enterprise clients and partners who share our belief that modern compliance needs a fundamentally different approach. Our team brings together deep domain expertise, product thinking, and a bias toward building — fast.

We’re at an exciting inflection point – with clear direction, client focus and a fast-growing team. You’ll be joining us as we lay the foundations of a new venture designed for long term impact across financial services

• We believe speed comes from quality, automation, and solving the right problems.
• We always leave things better than we found them.
• We start with the end in mind.
• We iterate quickly.
• If you build it, you fix it.
• We trust each other and ask for help.
• If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems using microservices and event sourcing with Node.js and React
• olid experience of service-to-service communication, API design, and contract testing
• You are comfortable in agile environments, resolving ambiguity
• Strong focus on customer needs, with a passion for building platforms that empower clients
• Commitment to cybersecurity best practices and data privacy
• Automation-first mindset: from infrastructure to testing and deployment

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

We are looking for someone to lead the evolution of our platform by simplifying user journeys, optimizing microservices workflows, and extending our domain model into a cutting-edge knowledge graph.
As a Senior Engineer, you are accountable for the quality, speed, and reliability of our microservices architecture, ensuring seamless user experiences and robust data security. You will transform innovative ideas into scalable code, automate everything from CI/CD to testing, and solve real customer problems at scale.