Job Summary
We are seeking a Full Stack Developer (3–5 years’ experience) to build applications and tools that support financial crime prevention and cyber investigations. This role involves developing secure, scalable solutions for investigation, case management, alert triage, and workflow automation, with opportunities to apply GenAI and AI engineering for intelligent investigations.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• Contribute to the FinCrime & Cyber technology strategy by building full stack applications that align with business goals and digital transformation priorities.
• Explore emerging technologies such as GenAI, vector databases, and AI-driven assistants to enhance investigative efficiency.
Business
• Collaborate with analysts, investigators, and risk teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Develop features that improve case management, fraud detection, and cyber defense workflows.
• Ensure applications deliver measurable value in reducing investigation time and improving operational resilience.
Processes
• Design and develop full stack applications using Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL.
• Build scalable APIs and backend services to integrate with case management platforms and investigative tools.
• Support data engineering workflows with Python, Airflow, and Databricks (good to have).
• Build AI Agentic Apps with frameworks like Google ADK, Langgraph, Langchain etc.
• Deploy and maintain applications with Docker/Podman and orchestrate on Kubernetes.
• Apply DevSecOps practices, ensuring secure coding, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
People and Talent
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical mentorship and knowledge sharing where needed.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation within the FinCrime & Cyber team.
Risk Management
• Build applications that adhere to cybersecurity and data privacy standards.
• Identify and mitigate risks in software design, deployment, and integration.
• Ensure secure authentication, authorization, and audit trails are embedded in applications.
Governance
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and design approvals to ensure compliance with technology standards.
• Maintain documentation, version control, and consistent coding practices aligned with enterprise policies.
Regulatory and 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, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
• FCSO
• FRM
• Cyber Operations
Skills and Experience
• Frontend Development
• Backend Development
• AI Engineering
• Data Engineering
• Machine Learning
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 opportunities to 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 can bring 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:
- 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
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
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 all sorts of 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.
- 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.