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Requisition Number: 59991
Job Location: Guangzhou, CHN
Global Grade: Band 6
Work Type: Hybrid Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 07/08/2026
Posting End Date: 30/10/2026
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Job Summary
We are seeking a talented and motivated senior JAVA software engineer to join a high performing Scrum team to roll out new digital solution for customers. The candidate must be a skilled professional who has high availability software development experience with a desire to work on an Agile, dynamic and flat organisational structure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop the business logic and backend systems of the product
- Work closely with frontend developers to design and develop functional, performing and complete APIs
- Decipher existing companies’ software systems and be able to hook in application to applicable data sources
- Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks
- Develop high quality, well documented, and efficient code
- Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
- Collaborate with product managers and other tech leads to ensure applications meet functional requirements and strategic objectives.
- Perform code reviews to guarantee quality and promote a culture of technical excellence in Java development.
- Lead and partake in system changes, ensuring project delivery is efficient and meets quality standards, directly involving oneself in coding and problem-solving.
Strategy
- Responsible for the quality of the code repository where applicable.
Business
- Deliver outputs that make a significant contribution to the organization's strategic goals.
Processes
- Responsible in the preparation of production outputs and their planning in alignment to ESDLC standards.
People & Talent
- Mentoring and training the squad on technical skills.
Risk Management
- Mitigate delivery risks and issues, and ensure quality, affordability, and scope of delivery.
Governance
- Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies
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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Chapter Lead
- Engineering Lead
- Release Manager
- Domain Architect
- Business Leads / Product owners
- Production Support
Skills and Experience
- Spring Boot
- Spring Framework
- Hibernate / MyBatis
- RESTful API
- Problem Resolving
- Container – OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes
- DB2 / Oracle / PostgreSQL
- Messaging – Queue, Topic
- DevOps / ADO
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, with preference given to advanced degrees.
- Minimum experience of 7 years in Java application development.
- Proficient in RESTful API, SOAP, JDK, SpringBoot 3.x, K8S, JUnit.
- Should have knowledge on Relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and/or No-SQL Databases and ability to write basic SQL queries.
- Preferred to have knowledge on API Gateways, API security, SSL, OAuth 2, etc.
- Develop and maintain messaging services using JMS/Solace/Kafaka.
- Should be independently able to manage CICD tasks using Git, Azure DevOps (ADO), Maven, Ansible, and Helm Charts
- Experienced in Container Infrastructure such as Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, OCP or AWS EKS or Azure AKS. Implement microservices architecture to ensure scalability and maintainability.
- Have a high enthusiasm for programming and new technology learning, have a strong learning ability.
- Fluent English speaking/listening/reading/writing. Mandarin or Cantonese language ability will be an advantage.
- Language: English
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.
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