Software Engineer jobs in Singapore

We are looking for an experienced engineer with strong expertise in front-end and familiarity with back-end and cloud technologies who are passionate about building reliable software services and platforms that have a tangible impact on our business. You'll work with like-minded technologists globally with a variety of skill sets, focused on building best-of-breed interactive investor and client facing digital experiences using modern, appropriate technologies.

The team

Asia Technology Delivery focuses on delivering outcomes that depend on close collaboration, deep expertise in core investment capabilities as well as leading digital experiences. Our mission is to accelerate Schroder’s profitable growth strategy across the region at scale by harnessing technology. We are gearing up to deliver an exciting and varied portfolio of initiatives, including enhanced front-office investor workflows, the launch of new investment products, and the facilitation of merger and acquisition (M&A) technical deliverables.

We aim to maintain a great engineering culture. Contributing to this culture will involve following good software craftmanship, implementing effective testing practices, writing clean code, and embracing AI in engineering. Our systems must be well architected, designed for testability and extensibility. To achieve this, we implement mentoring and coaching through regular code reviews and pairing on challenging problems.

You'll work with a team of enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about software in a financial context and evolving our investment and business platforms. They’re also keen on driving positive technology change at Schroders, ensuring that we always stay ahead of the curve.

• Lead all aspects of software delivery in terms of design, development, testing and implementation.
• Develop web applications using front-end technologies including React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Integrate and effectively utilise GraphQL and REST API endpoints, collaborating with backend engineers to design purpose-fit API specifications
• Refine the existing platform and products in response to business needs
• Coach and develop more junior team members, ensuring that best practices and methodologies are followed
• Pair-program and contribute to development of backend services and APIs (C#/Python)

The role requires a structured, creative individual who can support our growing demand for engineering on a global level. It is a senior development position, and strong technical skills are required.

• Proven track record of professional experience building and launching scalable/performant interactive web experiences; collaborating with design, product, and other partners.
• Excellent software design principles and patterns, designing code for readability and re-usability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Demonstrable experience embracing artificial intelligence in an evolving engineering toolkit in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working in a modern software engineering environment following Agile principles, DevSecOps methodologies, test automation, CI/CD workflows, and tools including Git and Github.
• Software development experience of backend services and APIs, using languages such as C#, Python, Java or similar.
• Experience working with global colleagues and stakeholders across different time zone, understanding cultural differences.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to deal credibly with business and technical users at all levels of the organisation

• An understanding of the investment management industry
• Working experience using cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS).
• Experience building software solutions in the Financial Services domain

• A passionate technologist who follows the latest trends, technology, and engineering approaches
• A problem solver with a business-facing personality. Great at working with other people, sharing, communicating and encouraging new ideas
• Ability to own a piece of work from start to finish
• Focussed on understanding the underlying business requirements before producing concrete deliverables
• Able to effectively estimate work and execute within deadlines under pressure

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You\'re welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.

We\'re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we\'ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn\'t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.