Quantitative Developer

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking a Senior Haskell Developer to enhance their cross-product transactional pricing systems. This role involves designing and deploying high-performance backend services, collaborating with global teams, and mentoring junior developers. The position offers flexible working options and a supportive environment for continuous learning.

Benefits

Core bank funding for retirement

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Experience with Haskell or similar functional programming languages.
• Application development experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services for derivative pricing using Haskell.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver business value.

Skills

Functional Programming

Software Development

Collaboration

Education

MSc in Computing Science

PhD in STEM

Tools

Linux

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Haskell Developer to join the FM Digital Channels (Blade) team at Standard Charteredin London. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the cross-product transactional pricing systems for derivatives, which are critical to the bank’s Financial Markets operations.
As a member of the team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and deploying high-performance backend services. You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams across global locations to deliver solutions that drive real-time pricing and trading functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services for derivative pricing using Haskell
• Lead development efforts on new features and system enhancements with a focus on quality and performance
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver business value
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and technical discussions to ensure best practices in functional programming
• Work closely with DevOps to support continuous integration and frequent deployment cycles
• Understand and apply financial domain knowledge, especially in derivatives pricing and risk management
• Contribute to the overall architecture and technical direction of the platform
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environments with urgency and precision
• Mentor junior developers and foster a culture of learning and collaboration within the team

Skills and Experience

• MSc or PhD in Computing Science or another STEM field is preferable, but optional in the presence of extensive experience in functional programming.
• Demonstrable experience with software development using functional programming languages, preferably Haskell or other such as OCaml and Scala.
• Application Development Experience (past or current).
• Architecture and System Design.
• Experience with using Linux environments.
• Experience with developing server-side software.
• Knowledge and experience of financial markets systems is a plus.

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.