Lead Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026. HSBC scores A on the Alion truth index.
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Your career opportunity
Group Functions Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening and risk assessment. Risk & Compliance Technology designs and deploys technology to defend the bank and its customers from sanctions risk, financial crime risk, identity threat, unauthorized trading, market abuse and regulatory sanctions as well as supporting enterprise risk management.
Within the Compliance Control team, you’ll build surveillance solutions that help HSBC comply with regulatory guidelines for preventing and detecting market manipulation attempts. These solutions are highly dependent on data from internal trading systems and other Compliance systems as well as market data and news sources.
What you’ll do
- Design and develop robust technical solutions for surveillance services.
- Partner with the product owner and the business to shape features and requirements.
- Automate testing to improve quality and speed of delivery.
- Automate deployment to enable small and frequent releases.
- Own production availability for your service using a build-it-own-it approach.
What you need to have to succeed in this role
- Bring substantial software development experience with strong Java skills.
- Apply a very good understanding of the Spring framework including Spring Boot.
- Use SQL effectively and handle big data volume transformation.
- Apply strong CI/CD knowledge using Jenkins, Git, Ansible or similar tools.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the ELK monitoring stack or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Demonstrate familiarity with Airflow or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Demonstrate familiarity with Spark or other big data tools or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Demonstrate strong analysis and problem-solving skills and deliver to tight deadlines with clear communication and ownership.
What we offer
The pay range for this role is 17 483 PLN - 25 000 PLN (monthly, gross).
Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.
We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.
- Additional bonuses for recognition awards
- Multisport card
- Private medical care
- Life insurance
- One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
- Cafeteria platform
- Employee assistance program
- Additional contributions to PPK scheme
- Corporate parties & events
- CSR initiatives
- Nursery discounts
- Financial support with trainings and education
- Social fund
- Flexible working hours
- Free parking
If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
- Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)
- Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
- Interview with the hiring manager
Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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