Solar Web UI Developer

Job Summary FM Digital Channels is a global team driven to provide world class technology in support of the bank’s Financial Markets business. Blade is the bank’s strategic, in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform. We bring a deep understanding 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 international team of smart technologists serving global business in the financial market’s 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.

Key Responsibilities As a senior developer, you’ll be joining a distributed development team, responsible for driving forwards the specific aspect of our global platform, and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in London, your team will collaborate in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations. You will be expected to quickly learn existing design and coding patterns, consistently apply and collaboratively evolve them while delivering increasingly complex and exciting projects for our customers.
• Participate in all stages of delivery – from requirements gathering to post-release customer support,
• Build new functionality, carefully ensuring adherence to existing coding patterns,
• Own and collaborate on technical design,
• Break large projects into tasks, delegate them to other developers, own and coordinate the consolidated delivery of the solution,
• Coach others to minimise the amount of review iterations for their deliveries,
• Develop yourself towards the goal of becoming a senior full-stack developer.

Skills and Experience Technical skills:
• Versatile JavaScript (Type Script) developer with good software design principles,
• With 7+ years of relevant experience,
• Expert in React, Redux, RX JS, NPM/Yarn, webpack, CSS, HTML and the rest of web stack,
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Azure Dev Ops,
• Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices
• Able to design and code the solution to complex and/or ambiguous business problem that requires the change in existing architecture or framework,
• Built complex, real-time (event-driven) multi-modular single page applications,
• Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems,
• Delivered features across full stack,
• Preferably with Java as backend technology stack,
• Writing efficient, clear code and able to articulate what has been built and why Functional skills:
• Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking,
• Derivatives product knowledge,
• e-trading technology experience.

Soft skills:

• Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing),
• Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts,
• Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems.
• Proactive and autonomous self-starter,
• Keen problem solver, with strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.

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.

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