About Standard Bank Group

Address

5 Simmonds Street, Johannesburg

Company Size

1000+
Summary

Three years ago Standard Bank Group IT stood at the edge of a tipping point. As Group IT we knew that leaner, agile, digitally ready banks were the future and we grabbed the opportunity to lead the change for our customers and our employees. Our transformation has been nothing short of remarkable.

Today, we are leading conversations in the industry about the future of banking, and it is a journey that we are excited and passionate about.

It’s simple: The digital revolution has re-based expectations about what is possible. We are on a undergoing a massive transformation with huge focus on creating a world class Engineering capability.

How we organise and think about teams and their composition....

Using agile principles and practices...

Creating a resilience in our code and infrastructure....

Using technologies to reduce hand-offs and free-up people to do what they enjoy and are good at doing....

Learning to learn as teams, functions and as an organisation...

Lean thinking and lean practices...

Making our work visible...

It’s about doing the minimum viable in everything....

And… it’s about reigniting satisfaction in our individual crafts and making this a truly great place to work!!!

We are inviting you to join the Standard Bank Group where we thrive on successfully structuring collaborative activity. Our diverse techies are encouraged to build towards global innovation within the banking industry. Take the journey of sharing, where we build ideas and community through cool tech and forward thinking engineering methods.

Our hiring process is based on a well defined selection methodology that involves assessment of technical, behavioural and leadership capabilities. Assessments are aligned to our technology frameworks and our interview process allows you the opportunity to showcase your skills at all levels within our organisation. Peer Reviews and meeting with potential future colleagues is part of the engagement and interaction you will experience.

Come share your knowledge and ideas, ask questions and push Technology boundaries!

Perks
Enhanced Financial Wellbeing- Retirement Funding, Banking Products at Preferential Rates ....
Accelerated Learning-Training Programmes, Leadership Development, Programmes at our Global Leadership Centre, Bursaries, Professional Membership Fees for work-related associations
Pension Fund
Global Footprint- over 50 geographies
Showcase Fridays
Extra Time Off- generous leave options- Vacation, Study, Special, Recognition...
Added Recognition- Beyond Excellence, Mark of Excellence, Long Service Awards
Added Peace of Mind- Life Cover, Funeral Cover, Personal Accident Cover, Incapacity Cover as well as various voluntary benefits at discounted rates
Medical Aid Plan
Performance Bonus
Attractive and Competitive Remuneration Structure
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
AngularJS
Objective-C
Javascript
Python
MySQL
Java
Spring Framework
Swift
Ruby
React
MongoDB
jQuery
HTML5
C#
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
nginx
unity
MS SQL
Xamarin
Kafka
TypeScript

DevOps

Ansible
Bower
GitHub
Grunt
Jenkins
Git
Chef
Docker
Maven
GitLab
Gradle
Puppet
Selenium
Android Studio
npm
Xcode
Bitbucket
Team Foundation Server

Utilities

Amazon Route 53
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Qlik

Business Tools

Google Apps
Slack
JIRA
HipChat