Sr. Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech

Standard Chartered; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 2,800,000 - 5,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Wellbeing program

Learning & development

Diversity & inclusion

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking a Backend Specialist in Chennai to develop and maintain in-house applications. You will collaborate with engineers across layers, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions while adhering to regulatory and governance standards.

The role requires strong API design, cloud and DevOps knowledge, and a passion for robust, secure systems. Flexible working arrangements are available to balance home and office locations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT with RESTful API development experience.
• Defining Swagger specs for REST APIs.
• Experience with cloud (AWS or similar).
• Expert with relational databases (Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• API integration using Pub/Sub or similar messaging.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams for initiatives.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and containerization.
• Experience with UNIX/Linux commands.
• Experience in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain in-house applications as part of a collaborative team.
• Participate in problem solving and design to deliver quality products.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and business conduct expectations.

Skills

RESTful Web Services

Spring / Spring Boot

Hibernate / JPA

Swagger / API Specs

AWS / Cloud

Relational Databases

API Integration (Pub/Sub)

DevOps / CI-CD

Docker / Kubernetes

JUnit

Git / Version Control

Azure Pipelines / Gradle / Maven

UNIX / Linux

Agile

Tools

Swagger UI

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

• We are looking for a Backend Specialist, responsible for the development and maintenance of in-house applications. You will be working alongside with other Engineers and Developers working on different layers of the Applications. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of 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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10+ years’ experience in in IT industry with Strong professional API development experience using RESTful webservices style, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate/Spring JPA with JSON data.
• Strong experience in creating defining Swagger specs for REST APIs, understanding REST principles and Guidelines.
• Good Knowledge & understanding in AWS cloud or any cloud technology.
• Expert knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Good knowledge in API Integration using Solace / any other messaging PubSub models.
• Should be able to come up with Technical Solution diagrams and Architecture for initiatives.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipeline deployment, containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS / Azure.
• Experience in Implementing unit testing frameworks like Junit.
• Strong version control skills using tools like Git, with a commitment to maintaining high standards of code quality through reviews and automated tests.
• Experience with continuous delivery systems and build tools – GIT, ADO/ Azure pipelines, Gradle/Maven etc,
• Good Knowledge & understanding on UNIX/LINUX commands.
• Experience with working in Agile environment.

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 our full potential.