Job Summary

The “Chapter Lead, Full Stack Engineering - JavaSpring, WRB Tech” role is a hands-on developer role focusing back-end as well as front-end development, and is accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members. Responsibilities in detail are:

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain exemplary coding standards within the team, contributing to code base development and code repository management.
• Perform code reviews to guarantee quality and promote a culture of technical excellence in Java development.
• Function as a technical leader and active coder, setting and enforcing domain-specific best practices and technology standards.
• Allocate technical resources and personal coding time effectively, balancing leadership with hands-on development tasks.
• Maintain a dual focus on leadership and hands-on development, committing code while steering the chapter's technical direction.
• Oversee Java backend development standards within the chapter across squads, ensuring uniform excellence and adherence to best coding practices.




• Harmonize Java development methodologies across the squad, guiding the integration of creative practices that align with the bank’s engineering strategies.
• Advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge Java technologies and frameworks, driving the evolution of backend practices to meet future challenges.

Strategy

• Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices and provide technical assistance to the members of their Chapter.
• Responsible for the quality of the code repository where applicable.
• Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.
• Prioritises and makes available capacity for technical debt.
• This role is around capability building, it is not to own applications or delivery.
• Actively shapes and drives towards the Bank-Wide engineering strategy and programmes to uplift standards and steer the technological direction towards excellence

📌 VP, CL, Full Stack Engineering, WRB Tech (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered India
📍 Bengaluru