Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - High-Scale Backend

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Learning opportunities

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking an experienced Software Engineer - Distributed Systems to design, build, and operate scalable, secure services for critical banking transactions. You will work on complex orchestration, data consistency, failure recovery, and observability, with Go or Java and exposure to durable execution platforms.

The role requires senior-level expertise, strong architecture skills, and a proactive, collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems or high-availability backends.
• Strong understanding of concurrency and service-to-service communication.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed backend services for high-volume transaction processing.
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant solutions with resilient integration patterns.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and delivery teams to meet technical needs.

Skills

Go/Java

Distributed systems

High throughput

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Temporal

DBOS

Job description

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking an experienced Software Engineer - Distributed Systems to design, build, and operate scalable, secure services for critical banking transactions. You will work on complex orchestration, data consistency, failure recovery, and observability, with Go or Java and exposure to durable execution platforms.

The role requires senior-level expertise, strong architecture skills, and a proactive, collaborative mindset.