Standard Chartered—Senior C++ Developer

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Description: Job Summary • Financial Markets eTrading (Foreign Exchange eTrading) has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive multi-year year product roadmap. The Financial Markets eTrading system developments team is a specialist team of individuals hired to design, develop, and enhance proprietary systems that will differentiate the bank in its core markets. eTrading systems are aimed at numerous customer markets including: external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms. • This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset eTrading trading system development team that is distributed between Bangalore, Singapore, Shanghai, and London Key Responsibilities 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. Other Responsibilities • Take responsibility of end-to-end delivery for the entire software development lifecycle, encompassing design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of a feature or application. • Key responsibilities include creating robust code using best practices, translating business needs into technical requirements, integrating systems, performing quality assurance, and ensuring the solution is scalable, maintainable, and aligns with security standards. • Ensure developed code has significant coverage by automated tests. • Adhere to SCB development practices. • Manage application support handover to global teams. • Maintain and enhance the code base after project go-live. • Proactively identify and mitigate potential risks and technical obstacles. • Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions. • Provide technical support and resolve critical production issues. Skills and Experience • Multithreading • C++ • STL • Boost • Python • Database Qualifications • C++14/17 skills, knowledge of the STL, experience of the Boost libraries is highly desirable. • Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable: system, network, or low latency programming. • Entry level python programming skill is good to have. • Development on Linux using gcc, gdb, git and associated debugging tools. • Knowledge of all aspects of software design, development, and deployment. • Working knowledge of FX products, pricing, and real time risk management desirable. • Working knowledge of the design of scalable, high availability, supportable distributed architectures. • Working knowledge of messaging and communication protocols including TCP, UDP, multicast, and data encoding • Working understanding of SQL and simple DDL operations. • Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact with business representatives. 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.