Blade Backend Developer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Responsibilities
The Derivatives Pricing team is responsible for cross-product transactional pricing of derivatives within Standard Chartered. The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business.

We bring a deepunderstanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment.

This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologistsglobally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun.

Learning opportunities are plentiful and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.

As a senior developer, you'll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements.

Based in London, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, projectmanagers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

Key Attributes:

An excellent Java developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites
Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why
Selfstarter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
Experience working in an agile development environment
A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
Experience in the endtoend design, development and support of financial markets systems
Experience with realtime (eventdriven) architectures
Being a fullstack web developer is a plus

Technical skills:

Hands on development with investment banking IT experience
Core Java (essential), Concurrency, Spring
RX Java is a plus
Experience in microservices and container technologies (preferably Docker) is a plus
Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps
Experience with distributed data stores a plus
Functional programming experience a plus

Functional skills:

Financial Market domain knowledge
Investment banking is a strong plus
Derivatives business is a plus

- e-trading and FX is a plus

Soft skills:

Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
Strong ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
Outstanding problemsolving skills
Proactive, selfstarter, autonomous
Good team spirit

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.
Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Role Specific Technical Competencies:

Core Java
Microservices, containers and cloud experience
Apache Kafka and Cassandra experience
Ability to develop latency sensitive systems
Agile development
Git and Atlassian toolset
Financial markets domain knowledge
Strong knowledge and previous experience in endtoend design, development and subsequent support of large scale data processing systems
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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 opportunitiesto 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 canbring 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:
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Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
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Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
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Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
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Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
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Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
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Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
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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 all sorts of self-helptoolkits
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A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
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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 their full potential.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable