Principal Distributed Systems Engineer (Go/Java)

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Extensive learning and wellbeing perks

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking a Software Engineer - Distributed Systems to design, build, and operate highly scalable, secure services for critical banking processes. You will work on service orchestration, data consistency, failure recovery, observability, and performance at scale, with Go or Java as core languages and exposure to durable execution platforms such as Temporal or DBOS.

You will join a high-performing team focused on engineering excellence, with responsibilities spanning

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on coding in Go or Java.
• Proven track record designing and building distributed, high-availability backend services.
• Experience with durability, observability, and performance in transaction-heavy systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend services for high-volume transaction processing.
• Implement resilient integration patterns across APIs, queues, streaming platforms, and internal services.
• Ensure strong validation, idempotency, and recovery mechanisms for safe processing.
• Promote engineering excellence, automated testing, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to deliver complex engineering outcomes.

Skills

Go

Java

Distributed systems

High availability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field

Tools

Temporal

DBOS

Job description

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking a Software Engineer - Distributed Systems to design, build, and operate highly scalable, secure services for critical banking processes. You will work on service orchestration, data consistency, failure recovery, observability, and performance at scale, with Go or Java as core languages and exposure to durable execution platforms such as Temporal or DBOS.

You will join a high-performing team focused on engineering excellence, with responsibilities spanning