Senior Associate, Frontend Engineer, WRB Tech

Job Description:

Job Summary:

There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking. Increasingly, banking is technology. Financial services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.

The Wealth, Retail Banking (WRB) is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency. Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.

Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with crossover between development and operations with business.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a Web Engineer you will focus on product development, work with your squad to finalize end to end solution and deliver the product to the Bank's digital channels.
• You will be part of the team that constantly analyze and improve the digital channel platform from a technical point of view as well as from user experience view.
• You will need to keep yourself updated with the latest software technologies and share the knowledge with your team.
• The team is responsible for building user-centric web-based digital banking applications for use by both internal Bank's staff and external Bank's customers around the world.
• You will be working with highly skilled engineers on web, responsive front-end platforms, and get to work in modern software development environments and practices.
• As part of the digital channels team, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the evolving technical direction of the team as we adapt to this rapidly changing space.
• The successful candidate is responsible for developing a new generation of digital banking to promote a better user experience to clients.
• The individual is going to be part of agile team developing world class leading mobile banking.
• Expect to be challenged in your adaptability and ability to think out of box and use creative ideas to resolve complex, real world programming challenges.
• Strong knowledge of UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Optimize mobile applications and user experience on the web platforms.
• Gather requirements, design, develop, deploy and support applications.
• Work closely with Product Owner and Squads to deliver user-centric solutions for internal and external customers.
• Promote adoption and rollout of Agile and modern software engineering practices.
• Promote and practice innovative software engineering practices and architecture design.
• Coordinate with development/interfacing teams and create a delivery pipeline across multiple streams.
• Ensure risks, issues and schedules are appropriately managed following agile principles.
• Collaborate with core DevOps and Testing teams to build and enhance a continuous delivery pipeline.
• Adapt to changes in priorities and requirements.

Skills and Experience:

Mandatory Skills:

• Hands on experience on web application development (JavaScript, TypeScript, >=ES6).
• Expert on one of the web frameworks - ReactJS / Vue / Angular.
• Expert on responsive UI design and resolve compatibility issues (H5 & CSS).
• Well versed in DevOps, Nginx, shell, docker.
• Familiarity with APIs to connect applications to back-end services.
• Experience in building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design, unit testing and UI testing techniques, problem-solving.
• Micro-Frontend design pattern.
• Strong experience on declarative programming style and unidirectional data flow.

Priority Skills:

• JavaScript (ES6+) / TypeScript
• HTML5 / CSS3 / Responsive Design
• ReactJS / Zustand / Angular
• Vue / Tailwind CSS
• Vite / Webpack / NPM / Yarn
• CI / CD
• Hybrid App

Other Skills:

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.

Motivations:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience, preferably within an international technology organization in delivering complex projects.
• Full software development lifecycle experience.
• DevOps toolchain experience (ADO, GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vx).
• Build automation tools (webpack, vite).
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong experience with mobile hybrid architecture, WebView and JS bridge.
• Good knowledge of web security (Pen Test).