Engineering Manager (Core Banking), Standard Chartered nexus

The Role Responsibilities

• Want to push the boundaries of traditional technology, finance and operations? At nexus, courage is a defining trait for all team members. Courage to challenge the status quo, to do better, to deliver against the grain and to achieve spectacular results in massive ambiguity. We want to change how ecosystems interact and only have the blueprint for the baby steps - come join us to build out the rest of it! The idea is to do amazing things and have a lot of fun while doing it.
• Standard Chartered nexus is looking for an Engineering Manager to join us to build product and features as we scale our business across the region.

What you will be doing:
You will be responsible for the overall software engineering output of the team, and you will own the full development lifecycle process inception to production. This includes tangible metrics like velocity & quality, delivering features on time and intangible measures like team morale, learning & improvement and advocating best practices across cross functional teams.

• Day to day job involves leading multi-shore engineering team and working closely with product owner to deliver features incrementally in SCRUM methodology.
• Work closely with Head of Development, Head of Engineering, Devops team to align on the centralized design standards, frameworks & tools to accelerate deliverables.
• Develop a new platform (greenfield project) from scratch on cloud native stack.
• Design, Develop, test, deploy and run on K8s
• Create green field Banking as service platform using Java from ground-up
• "Write code for others, not for yourself" - your code will be visible to thousands of developers
• Hands-on on Java Spring boot, microservices, REST, GRPC APIs
• Simplify the business requirements and propose clean design with help of UML.
• Mentor and coach junior developers
• Hands-on coding, develop high quality code while meeting deadlines
• Good design for given business domain and occasional implementation of POCs
• Provide unit testing and load testing
• Work in highly collaborative, fun loving team using Agile methodology

Our Ideal Candidate

• What you need to be successful in this role:
• 8+ years Java server-side development experience with decent understanding of core design patterns.
• Hands on experience in Java 8 and above
• Knowledge of GIT, branching strategies, build and deployment pipelines
• Experience of Agile/Scrum development methodologies
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)
• Hands-on on consuming and providing REST APIs
• Experience with microservices, Container Orchestration and Containerisation technologies
• Experience of dealing with scalability & performance issues on a distributed system
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, API gateways
• Knowledge of OAuth & OIDC is plus
• Experience of GO, SCALA & SPARK is a plus
• Knowledge of CASSANDRA, KAFKA is a plus
• Knowledge of retail banking is a plus
• Cloud knowledge a big plus (AWS/GCP/terraform)
• Be nice, respectful, able to work in a team

Role Specific Competencies

• 8+ years Java server-side development experience
• Knowledge of GIT, branching strategies, build and deployment pipelines
• Experience of Agile/Scrum development methodologies
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, API gateways, OAuth & OIDC, GO, SCALA & SPARK, CASSANDRA, KAFKA

About Standard Chartered nexus
Standard Chartered nexus is a white label plug-and-play banking solution powered by Standard Chartered Bank. We take pride in redefining how we bank customers globally by digitally marrying ecosystems to banks. Our Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution is the gateway that enables convenient access to financial services. We believe in challenging the status quo and thinking outside the box to deliver innovative solutions. Let's shape the future of banking together.
The Standard Chartered nexus family is made up of a bunch of fun, hardworking and results-oriented individuals. Most importantly, nexaurs value teamwork, and we champion a respectful, open and trusting work environment. If you are interested to be part of the team in re-wiring the DNA of banking, join us today. #YesWeCanLAH
Find out more about nexus and what we do at http://sc.com/scnexus