Sr Assoc, Front End Engineering

Job Summary
Standard Chartered is seeking individuals passionate about leveraging innovative technologies to deliver world-class digital experiences for clients and customers. As a Frontend Engineer, you will focus on product development, collaborate with your squad to design end-to-end solutions, and deliver high-quality products to the Bank's digital channels.

You will play a key role in analysing and improving the digital platform from both technical and user experience perspectives. Staying updated with the latest software technologies and sharing knowledge with your team will be a critical part of your role.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce frontend design principles, coding standards, and architectural patterns in line with the company's long-term vision.
• Mentor teams to ensure consistent adoption and alignment with business objectives.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions (FE/BE alignment).
• Resolve cross-squad dependencies (micro-frontends, shared libraries). Negotiate requirements with the product owner (tech feasibility).
• Design and enforce robust architectural frameworks for React applications.
• Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to look at problems from multiple angles.
• Advise other teams as well as internal teams in resolving issues end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and Agile practices. Drive agile practices within the team.
• Conduct code reviews and peer reviews.
• Champion sustainable architecture by embedding future-proof practices (e.g., micro-frontends, incremental adoption) into the development lifecycle.

Candidate Skills And Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 4 years of experience in web application development (HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS)
• Expertise in the React framework with at least 2 years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with APIs to connect applications to back-end services.
• Proven track record in vendor coordination, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery governance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Fluent In Spoken And Written English
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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.