Standard Bank Group is the largest African banking group by assets offering a full range of banking and related financial services. "Africa is our home, we drive her growth” Our vision is to be the leading financial services organisation in, for and across Africa, delivering exceptional client experiences and superior value. This sets the primary g...

Job Description

Design, build and support secure backend services, APIs, integrations and data services for core financial services platforms. This includes insurance and asset management platforms, and extends to other core platforms required to support banking, investment, customer, operational or regulatory journeys. The role focuses on API-first engineering, system integration, service reliability, data quality, security, deployment readiness and production support.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification:

First Degree

Field of Study:

Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

Preferred Certifications -

Cloud fundamentals, API/security certification, Agile/DevOps, database fundamentals or related backend engineering certification

Experience Required

3-5 Years

Experience in backend development, API engineering, or systems integration.

Hands-on software development experience using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, or other comparable backend technologies.

Experience in unit testing, API documentation, environment preparation and readiness, release management support, and production issue troubleshooting.

Exposure to the insurance, asset management, banking, or broader financial services industry will be an added advantage.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Adopting Practical Approaches

Checking Things

Developing Expertise

Managing Tasks

Team Working

Technical Competencies:

Backend development; API engineering; Microservices

System integration; database design/querying; event-driven patterns

CI/CD; automated and unit testing

Swagger/OpenAPI documentation

Security engineering; monitoring/logging

Design Thinking

Systems Design

Production troubleshooting

Data quality; reconciliation and reporting support.

• Design, build and support secure backend services, APIs, integrations and data services for core financial services platforms.
• This includes insurance and asset management platforms, and extends to other core platforms required to support banking, investment, customer, operational or regulatory journeys.
• The role focuses on API-first engineering, system integration, service reliability, data quality, security, deployment readiness and production support.

• Backend development
• API engineering
• Microservices
• System integration
• Database design/querying
• Event-driven patterns
• CI/CD
• Automated and unit testing
• Swagger/OpenAPI documentation
• Security engineering
• Monitoring/logging
• Design Thinking
• Systems Design
• Production troubleshooting
• Data quality
• Reconciliation and reporting support

• First Degree
• Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
• Cloud fundamentals, API/security certification, Agile/DevOps, database fundamentals or related backend engineering certification