Sr. Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical & life insurance

30 days leave

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop and maintain scalable in-house applications with AI-enabled capabilities. You will integrate LLM and RAG patterns, build agent workflows and ensure governance, security and observability across enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners and risk/platform teams globally to deliver high-quality AI services while adhering to enterprise standards and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience of 10 years in IT with at least 8 years in relevant domains.
• Proficient in RESTful API, SpringBoot 3.x, SpringBatch.
• Knowledge of Relational and/or No-SQL databases.
• Experience with JMS messaging using Solace, Kafka, IBM MQ.
• Familiar with API Gateways, API security and OAuth 2/OIDC.
• Ability to manage CI/CD tasks using Azure DevOps, Maven and Helm.
• Experienced with container infra: Kubernetes, OCP or AWS EKS.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-enabled backend capabilities including LLM and RAG patterns.
• Implement prompt orchestration, agent workflows and AI service adapters.
• Ensure secure, governed AI integrations with access control and guardrails.
• Develop reusable APIs, configurable prompts and resilient service design.
• Support observability with logging, monitoring and latency metrics.

Skills

RESTful API

Agile teamwork

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SpringBoot 3.x

SpringBatch

JMS

Solace

Kafka

IBM MQ

API Gateways

OAuth 2

OIDC

Azure DevOps

Maven

Helm Charts

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Job description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with expertise in AI-enabled application development and integration, responsible for designing, developing, integrating and maintaining scalable in-house applications and services. The role will contribute to AI/ML and GenAI integration patterns, including LLM and RAG services, agentic workflows, prompt and tool registries, model-serving APIs, observability, guardrails and secure enterprise integrations. You will work alongside Engineers, Developers, Architects, Product Owners, Risk and Platform teams across different layers of the applications. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, responsible AI adoption, secure design, engineering excellence and the creation of high-quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Minimum experience of 10 years in IT industry with at least 8 years of relevant experience
• Proficient in RESTful API, SpringBoot 3.x, SpringBatch
• Should have knowledge on Relational and/or No-SQL Databases
• Should have working experience messaging concepts using JMS with Solace, Kafka, IBM MQ etc.
• Preferred to have knowledge on API Gateways, API security, OAuth 2, OIDC etc.
• Should be independently able to manage CICD tasks using Azure ADO, Maven & Helm Charts
• Experienced in Container Infrastructure such as Kubernetes, OCP or AWS EKS.
• Experienced working in an Agile environment with globally distributed teams.
• Design and integrate AI-enabled backend capabilities including LLM services, RAG patterns, prompt orchestration, agent workflows, tool/function calling and AI service adapters within enterprise applications.
• Implement secure and governed AI integrations aligned to enterprise standards, including access control, input/output guardrails, auditability, explainability, human oversight, data privacy and responsible AI controls.
• Build and maintain AI integration services using Java/Spring Boot and approved frameworks or platforms, ensuring reusable APIs, configurable prompts, managed memory, model lifecycle integration and resilient service design.
• Support AI observability and operational readiness by enabling logging, monitoring, prompt-token usage tracking, latency/error-rate tracking, feedback capture and continuous improvement of AI-enabled services.

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.

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.